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People pay $0 to Google/Meta/Twitter/TikTok for their base level offerings, and their privacy policy is valid to discuss and criticize. Does it somehow become less important just because they are also getting paid money?

People discuss Apple's commitment to privacy and if it is real or adequate.

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> People pay $0 to Google/Meta/Twitter/TikTok for their base level offerings

There are costs other than direct monetary. We're still "paying" for it, just via ads, sponsored results, etc.

And I think that the inability to explicitly confirm relationships w/ Stripe et al are ways that users cannot determine whether they are paying w/ their data on top of their monthly costs.

> People pay $0 to Google/Meta/Twitter/TikTok for their base level offerings

people pay with wasted time and "cognitive load" because of the interstitial ads, and to decipher biases in presented data, though, too.

(i see a sibling comment is similar, but didn't mention wasted time, so leaving this here)

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