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I'm a big fan of capitalism.

I am not a big fan of capitalism gone amok.

I accept that I am "the product" when I use free services like gmail, google docs, facebook (I'm not on facebook because of this), twitter (ditto), etc.

But when you take my money, I am not the product. I am the customer.

Amazon takes our money for goods and services, but still treats us like a product. That's the deeper message of this story at @verge

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/10/23955934/apple-amazon-deal-search-product-pages-ads