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.
I think we don't get anything for free. We have to pay in various ways to internet service providers. And without an internet connection we can't access Google, TikTok or Facebook. We have to pay for an internet connection. Now let's talk about how we use free apps or websites. In general, it may seem that we use them without paying, but in reality, we use them for a fee. Because we spend a lot of time here. One of the sources of income for social media is the user's time and data. They arrange their entire system in such a way that a person cannot easily get out of Facebook or TikTok even if they want to. If a user thinks that he will use Facebook or TikTok for ten minutes, he will never understand when he will exceed an hour and a half. In this way, the more the user scrolls, the more the income system of social media expands.
And during these one and a half hours, they will earn money by showing you a lot of ads.
Thats the literal part but this is really just that common sense on which the resources that you are using on accessing the internet alone do already shows up that you are already having the expense with those ISP's and on the time or moment that even using up your own mobile phone and needed up to be charged then thats already an expenses to electricity cost. It is really that on the surface part on which people doesnt mind much but if we do speak about on spending something then there's really that we are really that been using. For those platforms on which been used on posting our pictures and others then it might look free but we are actually the products of the said companies or platforms.