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There is a saying: If you are not paying for the product, you are the product.
Under capitalism, almost nothing is truly free, even if it may not lighten your wallet directly.
A free social media platform sells your personalized data to advertisers. Web galleries offer your work for training pattern recognition neural networks. Some free services may require you to pay for the device you need to use them.
Free to play games try to psychologically manipulate those that cannot manage their spending impulses. Free trials give you a taste of the full product and make it hard to drop after it integrates into your habits.
Is this manipulative? Absolutely. Is it illegal? Not at all. Most terms of service obfuscate the details of these practices with vague wording. "Your data will be used to improve our service" can mean many things.
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