[TootsMagoon]

Just a reminder. You are the product Google sells. This is a premium service to make you a more premium product that Google will sell to advertisers. We should all be looking at different (non advertising) models for the services they are offering. Hyper-targeted advertising and all the risks associated with it is not good for society.

[mda]

I hear this often but usually lacks explanation, can you elaborate?

[blairbeckwith]

I fly in to a rage now every time I hear this. It's become completely and utterly meaningless. "If you're not paying, you're the product!" -> "If you're paying, you're just a better product for them to sell!"

It might be true, but there exists not a single person on this site who hasn't heard it, and it provides absolutely zero value.

It was never even true to start with. The act of paying for something in no way has ever made you ineligible as a source of other revenue.