The old rule used to be "if you're not paying, you're the product" but I think at this point we should all just assume that we're always the product no matter what, and paying just demonstrates that we're products that will pay for things.
At Costco I feel part of the Kirkland family of products
I hate how true this is
Fuck, where'd they put my price tag. It's in my small intestine isn't it
Turning on my top of the line TV to be offered a bunch of ads for content. I guess Samsung has to keep the lights on somehow
I mean it was always true I. Legacy media. Subscriber numbers and data was/is used to sell ad space. Online briefly allowed us to pay not to have ads but …
this is part of why I've always avoided clothing/accessories brands that rely on slapping their logo all over their product. I don't want to pay to be someone else's billboard
I loved Martha Wells’ detail in Murderbot that the company mined the securitybot’s surveillance data for things that could be resold.