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Re:How Riot Games is fighting the war against video game hac... by cheschire on Sunday May 04, 2025 @07:45PM (#43890604)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_Delivers_People

Perhaps you may benefit from reading this.

But basically, if the product is free, then you are the product.

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Re:How Riot Games is fighting the war against video game hac... by arealaccount on Sunday May 04, 2025 @07:55PM (#43890656)
Bummer there’s no link to the video
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Re:How Riot Games is fighting the war against video game hac... by papa_bear on Sunday May 04, 2025 @09:42PM (#43891238)
This isn’t a given since there’s still a way to give them money directly for cosmetics (which makes them a ton of money). Many freemium business models give away a lot product for free with the goal of convincing a minority of users to pay and subsidize the rest.
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