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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

then what is the user if not the costumer of the company/consumer of the service?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

The valuable commodity is data. Think of it like eggs. The users are the chickens. Google runs the poultry farm.