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tokenadult on April 28, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook shoots first, ignores questions later; ac...

In what sense are you or I customers of Google or Facebook if we don't pay money to either company to use any of their services?

adsr on April 28, 2011 [–]

That is interesting, we are not their customers but their resource. Their real customers are the companies that they sell our data to.

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