It turns out that "if you're not paying for the product, you're the product" is only half-right. The other half is, "even if you pay for the product, you're the product." Pay, don't pay: companies will productize anyone they can. And thanks to our enshittogenic policy environment - where the worst ideas of the worst people make the most money - you can *always* be productized:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/10/say-their-names/#object-permanence
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