Samsung: buy device, we collect your data Apple: buy device, we collect your data Google: buy device, we collect your data Tesla: buy a car, we collect your data Uber: pay for delivery, we collect your data Amazon: pay for subscription, buy items, sell items, we collect your data. Netflix: literally the only way to interact with us is to pay a subscription, we collect your data. YouTube: pay more than every other streaming service to get music, video and shorts with no ads, we are still collecting your data.

“If it’s free, you’re the product” has never been and will never be true. You’re the product so long as advertising exists, paying for shit doesn’t change a thing. They don’t care you bought it once because they want you to buy again and again and only from them. It’s a statement to make people think they deserve the treatment they’re getting and its gaslighting.