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Originally Posted by jgaiser
Wait... What? If the services are free, the services are free. If the owner thinks the service is *worth* something he can charge a fee. I pay for *a lot* of online services when there is value to me.
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It's not free, it just doesn't cost the end user any money. You pay instead by being the product. (And if there's no value, why are you using it at all?)
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Originally Posted by jgaiser
In the meantime, I'll skip the commercials, I'll block the tracking bugs and I'll make the decisions on who gets information from and about me.
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If enough people do that, the free service will disappear. A lot of people will whine about that, too.