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As always, if the product is free, you are the product...


Did you read the article? This is about a paid web crawling api that the author thinks is too good or something. Nothing about a free product


“Although the saying tells us “If it’s free, then you are the product,” that is also incorrect. We are the sources of surveillance capitalism’s crucial surplus: the objects of a technologically advanced and increasingly inescapable raw-material-extraction operation. Surveillance capitalism’s actual customers are the enterprises that trade in its markets for future behavior.”

Excerpt From The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Shoshana Zuboff




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