On Mar 10, 2016, at 08:24 , Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net> wrote:
Once upon a time, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> said:
In fairness, however, this is because he is not Google’s customer, he is Google’s product. Google is selling him (well, information about him anyway) to their customers. They gather this information by offering certain things he wants in exchange for him allowing them to collect and redistribute this data.
False supposition; Google does actually sell services as well. $DAYJOB pays Google for services, and has paid Cogent for network access.
Not my assumption… Assumption included from Bill Herrin’s message…
Google, by contrast, makes no demand that Cogent pay them even though you are not paying Google for service.
(Underline added for emphasis) Owen