> A) Do you pay them? - No: then yes it is free
And here we see the ostrich. When faced with the horrors of reality, sticks its head in the sand. It’s simpler in there.
And here we see the ostrich. When faced with the horrors of reality, sticks its head in the sand. It’s simpler in there.
The advertisers paying to get their ads placed in front of those eyes disagree.
And ye, since another comment questions this, data or "eye-time are similar - they can be broken down to the individual.
The advertisers pay some price expecting a certain number of people to see the ad, and even if data about people is sold in bulk (too) there is a price per individual. It's a simple division to see the price they pay per person to view that cinema ad, or for one person's data, even if they always purchase those in bulk.
After all, they get to the bulk price by multiplying how much they are willing to pay for one individual with the expected (or in the case of data packages known) number of individuals.
Also Chrome exists primarily to ensure their ads business remains healthy i.e. they have massively watered down privacy restrictions.
Theres a reason that you have to log into a Google account to use those services, which means agreeing to their rather large TOS.
Buying something doesnt necessarily mean you have to pay money for it. Your time and information is worth something too.
I've never heard of Google doing this. Google sells access to and the attention of their audience. They do not sell personal data.
It literally means exactly that, because you're deriving some real value (money) from 5 minutes of your eyesight. So therefore it has value.
You, the theater owner, are selling the time people are sitting in your theater in view of a large screen to advertisers. That time is literally worth something.
If there were no people in the theater, the advertisers wouldn’t pay for the time.
You just really don’t understand how advertising works.
You’re effectively saying something like “just because people would pay for something, doesn’t mean it has any value”
I have to believe that you’re an extremely skilled troll, because otherwise idk what’s going on in your head.
That’s literally google’s business model.
You think Gmail is free bc Google is nice?
Come on…
Which is a bad thing and should stop. Right now!
Ps: it’s also not like you’re paying so little that you could say you’re getting it for…… free
Very weird.
It’s a good deal for the individual, that’s why Gmail is popular.
Trading something of low value for something of moderate value is not what “free” means…
Say the data from me or any of my peers was worth 1/100th of a cent and we give that away… that means I am trading something of minor value for something else…
I don't want to sell my data. I want companies to stop collecting it.
In fact, I don't think I've seen anyone here wishing they could sell their data.
However the value is not nothing, and if you are a company with multiple billion users, that value of data can get pretty big pretty fast