Almost everything we consume online is free.
Why?Because businesses can exploit our belief that "Information wa.
It didn\'t have to be this way.* Web pioneers tried to invent new payment methods.* Google\'s founders were dead set against advertising.* Email wasn\'t always open to data mining.
Yet here we are.
We\'re the product.
They\'re the customer.
But those apps on our phones aren\'t really free--so if we\'re not paying, who is? The surveillance marketing industry.
Email, search, news, entertainment.
Almost everything we consume online is free