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[–] AndinBriwel ago  (edited ago)

"...they won't charge you more, but they will sell your data and grow and hire more."

In that case, then, just like fakebook and gmale are free, internet service and cel service should be free to me, since I'm now the product of their venture.

The difference is, before this measure, I was the customer of the ISP. I pay them, and they deliver a service. It's a good relationship, most of the time, because it's in their best interest financially to keep me happy. In fact, if they fail to deliver fair service to me, the customer, they cease to exist. I am the customer, and the internet access or mobile service is the product.

Meanwhile, if I have a fakebook acct, I am not a customer of fakebook. They are paid by advertisers to aggregate my habbits, personal views, and interests, and rent my eyeballs to the advertisers. In return for loaning fakebook my eyeballs, they allow me to give them all my information for free. In that situation, the advertiser is the customer, and I am the product.

Welcome to the new world, where the ISP now sells you to any highest bidder. You are now the product, and the service they provide is just a means to farm you. To make it all even better, they now charge you for being farmed. Imagine a strawberry having to pay you to be eaten by you. Except, you're the strawberry.

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[–] ThisWeirdWeirdWorld ago 

Welcome to the new world, where the ISP now sells you to any highest bidder.

You mean welcome to the old world, they pretty much had this ability since the first internet service provider opened up shop.

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[–] AndinBriwel ago 

No, I mean new, since, before yesterday, an ISP selling anyone your information was illegal.