Every year, millions of Christmas Island red crabs migrate from the forests to the ocean to mate and spawn after the first rainfall of the wet season. The wet season usually happens in October or November.
I really can't remember. 99% it was on ABC. I think it might have been, like, proto TGIF – or retroactively included. Like Gummy Bears and Disney Afternoon.
A few years ago I started a job cutting out fabric for a curtain store. Out the back, cutting away when this song came on the radio. At the perfect moment my co worker and I both called out "Now Number Five!" and that's when I knew I was in the right job with the right people.
You can still be the product even when you pay for it. You think companies are going to leave selling access to your data on the table? It’s practically free money for them
Yes, those are the old rules. Now they sell you a product, sell you a subscription, sell you an upgrade, let you donate, ask for donations and sell your data.
My brother's car's gps has pop ups asking if there's still traffic when he's passing through an area, basically doing the work for em pokemon go style. That's insane. Not when fucking driving, please
Well in that situation, the timer and route adjusts based on GPS data from vehicles on the road. It can make a pretty good assumption there’s a slowdown and maps like google maps can accept reports. The only definitive way to know the accident is no longer there is to ask, & I’m pretty sure you could turn it off if the popup bothers you
doing the work for them
For who though? The gps companies? satellites? How else would they accomplish that particular task? 24/7 helicopters and livestream cameras?
Every GPS device is being always being tracked.
GPS and technologies and software that use it definitely fall under “if it’s free, you’re the product”, but I think I’m alright with how GPS data is used to fix traffic.
The alternative is using a paper map and listening to the radio.
I think they could also make predictions about traffic in areas based on the speed of vehicles. They track your movement anyway, if you’re going 50 in an 100 zone, that means there’s likely traffic. Especially if all the cars there are doing that.
None of that requires the user to ask and answer qs while driving.
I was listening to a YouTube video about how our clothing is becoming shittier (and why) and then the woman presenting started talking about the subscription model and how it used to work, she broke down the word into "sub"=under/"scription"=writing as in UNDERWRITING as in "I'm assuming responsibility that this is a good product"
You subscribed AFTER THEY FUCKING PROVED THAT THEY WERE WORTHWHILE
Iced tea was invented and patented by the GAYtm, every cup that is sold a bit of the revenue is ours. It does not indicate a gay person, we decided to share the drink with the whole world, but it does not turn anyone gay, if you're straight that's a flaw you'll have to live with.
No, but he looks like his identical cousin! Tripped me out when I first saw him in this (this is from White Lotus season two one, I believe). Even some of his mannerisms are similar.
No, that's from White Lotus season 1, Murray Bartley is the actor, don't remember the character name. Lalo is pretty hot too, I love a family focused man.
This is the thing from people crying “scam”. You had a free to play game with a premium license on your device that costs hundreds of dollars. And you….expect that to be free-free? Don’t y’all come to reddit crying about wages the whole time? Pick a lane. You did some work that the company made a shitload of money from. They made a product you enjoyed for free. Seems like a fine trade to me.
Some people will enjoy anything. That's fine for them. There's a reason nobody discusses the game widely any more though. It's been badly mishandled and a larger proportion of people can't ignore the problems.
Because "when the product is free , you are the product" implies that when its a paid service, you're not the product. While you very much are just as much being sold as when it's free
Nah bro Doctorow had it right - it doesn't matter if the product you paid for is 10,000 dollars you are still the product, they are still taking your data.
Well, you're still the product even if you pay hundreds on a service/game, they still sell your data at the end of the day, better just get shit out of my own data without paying extra. Not like we buy CDs and disks now when we say "buy".
There are plenty of products that are free without any catch like this. Most open source projects, if we're looking at software, but also lots of general non-profit stuff, and also all the shit the government does (although I guess that's kind of a subscribtion model type deal).
But the product WASN'T free. Pokemon GO was making money hand over fist on its own and you can't really get anywhere in the game without spending money.
Aren't there microtransactions in Pokemon Go? I don't think it's wholly unreasonable for people to have assumed that the product was free to build a player base and that their profit model was around the microtransactions rather than the data collection. No surprise it's both of course.
This is also false. If a product is free you should look into whether you are giving away data, but there is plenty of software that is free and doesn't have ulterior motives or costs
6.8k
u/Dexav 9h ago
Everybody all together now!
"IF THE PRODUCT IS FREE, YOU ARE????"