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[–] snooggums@midwest.social 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Looks like companies are shifting to charging users whose data they are stealing.

The saying 'if you aren't the customer, you are the product' is outdated. Now you are the customer and the product!

[–] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Windows has done this for ages now. Buying a laptop, you pay well over $100 for the windows license alone, yet it is the most egregious operating system when it comes to datamining the user.

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 5 points 6 months ago

And then they started putting ads for subscriptions in the os.