On 3/28/17 16:08, valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:51:43 -0700, Seth Mattinen said:
Has there ever been a real survey that asks people where they think Google gets the money to support things like Gmail for "free"? There's a difference. Google only gets to aggregate data you pass to Google. Your ISP gets to aggregate data you pass to *anybody*. The difference matters.
I know, I'm not picking on Google like the other post was, other than to bring up that point that a lot of non-technical people don't connect that free Gmail means something has to pay for it. When I talk to people they have this expectation of free internet because ISPs charging for internet access is greedy when most most everything online is free. The internet is just a nebulous thing out there that's "free". So ultimately you have ISPs that sell data to marketers so they can meet the demands from sales/marketing to offer $10 gigabit internet access with no contracts and free install. ~Seth