Google and TikTok may seem free, but every click and scroll you make gets packaged into a "user profile" and sold to advertisers. Take Facebook, for example—it makes about $50 per user per year just from their data. In the internet age, if you're not paying for the product, you are the product.
Of course. In the age of the internet, if I don't pay for a product, I am the product. That's 100% true. Currently, when using YouTube, they ask for a fee to make it ad-free. If we pay, the ad will be blocked for a certain period of time. But is this the end? Are they happy with this small amount? No, this is just the beginning. We think we are using YouTube for free. But to use Google, YouTube or other online platforms, we first have to buy data. After that, we can access it. In this way, we have become a means of earning money for others every moment.