If you're not paying for it, you're the product.

· Bits and Bobs 4/7/25
  • If you're not paying for it, you're the product.
    • If it's incredibly important to you, you should be glad to pay for it.
    • It's like paying for rent or mortgage, to have a space that's yours.
    • Our phone and our computer are our digital homes.
    • It makes intuitive sense to pay for our digital homes, to ensure we have a space that's ours.
    • If someone offered you a free phone, you'd be suspicious.
      • "What's the catch?"
    • But we don't have that same suspicion about software.
    • Maybe we should!