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Re:The Price of Free Is Actually Too High by HelloNurse on Monday April 16, 2018 @03:10AM (#16847195)
Naive: instead of serving ads directly, the service would just eagerly sell your data to someone else for possibly worse purposes than ads (e.g. denying you health insurance, mortgages, a job, etc.)
Re:The Price of Free Is Actually Too High by oneeyedpigeon on Monday April 16, 2018 @05:30AM (#16847730)
Why? Why wouldn't the income from subscriptions be enough?
Re:The Price of Free Is Actually Too High by vageli on Monday April 16, 2018 @08:02AM (#16848328)
There is no such thing as "enough" when corporations seek perpetual growth.