Free. Your Facebook, your Instagram. The games on your phone, every single service provided to you free of cost*. Hello, asterisk my old friend. The be-all, end-all, catch-all caveat to cover all conditions. You are the physical manifestation of the User Privacy Agreement that no one reads and clicks "Agree" to continue. You just sit there in the corner, like the eye Big Brother keeps on us, and manage to coerce us into giving up many of our freedoms in return for the smile plastered on your face which screams "FREE". So consider this a PSA for everyone oblivious to the atrocities committed by companies providing "free*" services. It might not be as bad as I make it out to be, but that's up to you to decide. I don't know how many of you have read 1984 by George Orwell. It paints a very bleak picture of the potential dystopia caused by invasion of privacy and freedom. We aren't there yet, of course, but we're slowly getting there....
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