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What’s exploitative about offering a free account?
by djakaitis 5y ago
What’s exploitative about offering a free account?
- ahelwer 5y agoA bit taken aback this still needs to be explained, but the point of having an account is so they can use your email address and phone number to correlate you & your actions across the entire internet to better surveil you & serve you behavior-modifying content.
- goodpoint 5y agoThe "free" service is also there to hurt competition, establish market dominance and later or do all sort of bait-and-switch. Reminder: by dominating a market a company removes options and better alternatives from the end users.
- goodpoint 5y agoI just explained how cornering a market works. What part of the 3 steps is unclear?