If it’s free. You're the product

HADRIAN ION on October 8, 2020 at 12:47 pm

Idea: If it’s free. You’re the product

Link: https://www.theverge.com/interface/2020/9/...

Great documentary but a good point… “It is more than a little ironic that a film that warns incessantly about platforms using misinformation to stoke fear and outrage seems to exist only to stoke fear and outrage — while promoting a distorted view of how those platforms work along the way.”

What ‘The Social Dilemma’ misunderstands about social networks

Link: https://www.theverge.com/interfa

The world is more complicated than filmmakers want to believe.

8-BIT BOBBY on October 8, 2020 at 12:44 pm

Idea: If it’s free. You’re the product

Link: https://thenextweb.com/contributors/2018/1...

Some say Facebook got robbed of their data, they are a victim of crime not the perpetrators.

Facebook is using your personal data, hereâs why itâs fine

Link: https://thenextweb.com/contribut

When the Cambridge Analytica scandal came out, it did more than just shake up Facebook, it stirred the conversation about privacy and brought it front and center. Privacy is a huge subject especially when it plays on the fear of losing it. In a world where hacking has become mainstream, peopleâ... Read more

Munch on October 8, 2020 at 12:41 pm

Idea: If it’s free. You’re the product

Link: https://slate.com/technology/2018/04/are-y...

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak used this phrase in an interview explaining why he quit Facebook; Apple CEO Tim Cook used it back in 2014, referring not to Facebook but to… Google.

It’s Time to Stop Saying “If You’re Not Paying, You’re the Product”

Link: https://slate.com/technology/201

The revealing history of everyone’s favorite Facebook critique.

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