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by u_name 1091 days ago
Maybe i am wrong, but isn't that what happens currently with different services a sign that the "it's free, you're the product" thing kinda starts to fail or needs to get renamed into "it's free, you're our product"?

Let's assume it's all about ML/AI learning or data mining. Then you either keep a free, but walled garden (to be the only one to mine the data of your users) or you offer a "for pay" service (to offset the cost of the increased load on your network / systems), not mining your users data and allowing them to share content public.