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[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 32 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I’ll just leave this here.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

claw back that value!

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca -3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Did you read the article you referenced?

Or maybe I'm just not seeing the connection.

[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

The cycle is:

Provide a useful service to users at a loss to make the service indispensable
Claw back some of that value for business customers (advertisers) to lock them in
Claw back some of that value for the company

They’re describing how nice step 1 was.