Nicole Nguyen at BuzzFeed writes about the Uber/Unroll.me news and more generally on free apps and services.
The Unroll.me/Uber fury is a good reminder of the ol’ Internet adage, “if you’re not paying for it, you’re not the customer, you’re the product.”
But some sites are much more egregious than others. So here are some ways you can assess an app’s trustworthiness and find out if your free faves are problematic.
I don’t use either, but the Uber/Unroll.me news has me thinking about the “free” apps & services I do use.
If there’s only one thing you take away from this article, let it be this: there’s no such thing as a free lunch.
