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Firefox? Aren’t they just getting anonymous telemetry and setting the default search engine to Google? I know they changed their TOS in the past but how are they selling data?
Mozilla purchased an advertisement company and a fair chunk of the board of Mozilla are ex google.
so they’re not selling the data, they’re using it internally.
Yes, they hold the user data (supposedly its all generic, non-personally identifiable, and they dont build user profiles) and then have advertisers pay them to push targeted ads based on that data. This is how the tech companies make boatloads of cash - force advertisers to pay for a subscription to use the user data for targeted ads.
If you’re getting something for free, you aren’t the consumer, you are the product. Open Source projects (free as in speech) need some way to pay for the beer (not free). Enshittification is accelerating the conversion of services that have some form of free tier into more aggressively finding ways to monetize those users. Even services you pay for are selling your data, to make sure they can get maximum juice.
Not true!
There’s also stealing. That’s free.
Linux is free, am I the product?
No, Linux wants your most precious resource. Your time!
In exchange you get to actually own your software and get to control your operating system. I would argue that this is priceless.
Yes.
If you don’t pay for your product, you are the product
Nah, there are good open source projects that are free because people think it’s important for them to be. Many of us probably also contributed to some, helping good things to be free.
Wrong. You are the product anyway, believing the majority of companies would not monetarize you because they made you pay first is very naive.
Nope. Amazon Prime, YouTube Premium, Netflix, etc. will all still track your behaviour, collect your data to be used against you, and still make you the product.
Corporate greed and enshittification have ruined everything.
Firefox, Plex, and VPNs I can understand being surprised about. But the rest of them… I mean of course they were going to milk you for money. Was there ever a time when any of those didn’t?
Betterhelp is a mental health therapy service. It’s not exactly unreasonable for someone who doesn’t know the company to think that their THERAPIST won’t leak and sell their info.
Talk about exacerbating trust issues!
Plus it’s not free. So the assumption would be that they’re making their momey by charging the therapist a service charge.
