Yeah, I'm the product, but I'm the product even when I'm the customer! It's inescapable in the era of big data. We have to fight exploitation legislatively. Not being the product means not participating fully in modern society and spending a lot of time checking everything. It's really not possible to avoid it. Mike On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 11:56 AM, Clug <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, 18 Jul 2017, Iznogoud wrote: > >> Maybe the price is so low because "you" are the product. > > > It's worth noting that Amazon sells a "No Special Offers" version of all > their Kindle devices which do *not* show ads. Naturally, they cost more. > They also let you disable the ads post-purchase (though they do charge for > it, of course). > > I have heard people say the ads are not intrusive, too (they're on > screensaves/splash screens, not while you're actively using the device). I > personally still find this... less than acceptable, but if people are OK > with it on their device, I'm not going to judge. Much. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list