• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    If you’re not the customer, you’re the product.

    Except most free and open-source software, major open knowledge bases, literally the social media service you’re using to communicate this point right now…

    While understandable when talking about services by for-profit corporations, this talking point without that context is oversimplified to the point of being obnoxious in a world where I can set up a desktop OS with a fully featured environment and software suite then go browse a social media site where at no stage was anything free where I was the product.

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      2 days ago

      Yeah, I didn’t think I needed to make clear I meant with for profit companies like Nintendo.

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      Yeah, revised version:

      If you’re not paying you’re the product. If you are paying you’re still the product and paying for the privilege*.

      • Except for not for profit software / platforms.

      Humm, that’s not as pithy.