Re:Not OK, Google
by dragonwriter on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @06:36PM
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> Google is selling you, to advertisers, quite literally.
No, that would be slavery, which is illegal.
Google is selling advertising space on various channels that you provide in exchange for Google services to advertisers.
> When you aren't paying anything for something of value, YOU are the product.
No, when you aren't paying money for something of value, you are probably paying something else of value for it; often, something that the person with which you are trading is then selling for money, making you a supplier of an input to the good or service they are selling for money.
No, that would be slavery, which is illegal.
Google is selling advertising space on various channels that you provide in exchange for Google services to advertisers.
> When you aren't paying anything for something of value, YOU are the product.
No, when you aren't paying money for something of value, you are probably paying something else of value for it; often, something that the person with which you are trading is then selling for money, making you a supplier of an input to the good or service they are selling for money.