At this point if you don’t know you’re the product if the product is free, then chances are good you’re not going to know. Welcome to Costco, I love you.
You know that generative AI browser assistant extension is probably beaming everything to the cloud, right?
Submitted 5 weeks ago by neme@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/25/generative_ai_browser_extensions_privacy/
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wedge@lemmy.one 5 weeks ago
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Forget “if the product is free”. You are a product even if you pay subscriptions these days. They still track all your activity and then sell it or use it to train AI models that they will make you pay for again.
autonomoususer@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
How does Lemmy, Tor or Signal make us the product? Paid and unpaid software can fail to include a libre software license text file but these do not.
zap12344@feddit.it 5 weeks ago
“Companies don’t make you the product because you don’t pay — they make you the product because you can’t stop them“
autonomoususer@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Because some of us let them.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Kinda has to be unless you’ve got 3k+ in GPU sitting next to you.
theneverfox@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
A $500 one is plenty, even phones can run models good enough to be useful (if not near as quickly)