NO.
This is so confusing. There are many free things where you are not "the product". We make many, see https://www.tromsite.com and https://trom.tf.
I wish people would stop saying this about google and the like. There is a simple and to the point way of describing these "free" services. They are TRADE-BASED. You have to trade something to them, in order to use their services.
In the same way that when you go to a supermarket you have to trade your currency for what you grab from it, you have to trade your attention (ads) or data to Google when you go on their platform. Currency, attention, data.
S I M P L E
We live in a TRADE-BASED society where pretty much everything is trade-based. Money is just
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NO.
This is so confusing. There are many free things where you are not "the product". We make many, see https://www.tromsite.com and https://trom.tf.
I wish people would stop saying this about google and the like. There is a simple and to the point way of describing these "free" services. They are TRADE-BASED. You have to trade something to them, in order to use their services.
In the same way that when you go to a supermarket you have to trade your currency for what you grab from it, you have to trade your attention (ads) or data to Google when you go on their platform. Currency, attention, data.
S I M P L E
We live in a TRADE-BASED society where pretty much everything is trade-based. Money is just a currency we invented, but trades go without currency as well.
We spent more than a decade trying to shed some light on this confusion.
Documentary - https://www.tromsite.com/documentaries/trom2/
Book - https://www.tromsite.com/books/#flipbook-the-origin-of-most-problems-1/1/
So when you create something entirely free, simply call it TRADE-FREE.
S I M P L E 😀
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