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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.

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