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Remember, if you're not the customer, you're the product. These days, even if you're the customer, you may still be part of the product for another kind of customer.


Yes, sure, but it's harder to convince people to pay for something monthly when there's a good (and free) alternative available.


while that is true it can be meaningfully qualified.

On facebook you are the product in the sense that they sell access to your eyes.

On linkedin you are the product in the sense of aiming to the network effect (and also for ads I imagine)

If I am the product on warp in the sense that websites hosted on cloudflare are faster it is not that bad.

(it is your choice to trust them or not, but that truism just says that the profit needs to come somewhere and you should be aware of it)




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