It's contempt for the product then, and if they're not careful all of their products will get up and leave.
nah they won't. products are dumb on average. you're probably on the right slope of the bell curve and can't fathom how gullible the other side of the hill is.
Unfortunate, but true. I don't understand why people use services like that so willingly, because companies have to make their money somewhere. For some I guess the amount of personal data provided isn't a big deal.
I've been saying this about Google for years. When a company makes money of off advertisements and gives away services for free, the people taking the services are not customers, and the free services are bait.
That's exactly right, except the investors are also the customer and they have to be satisfied as well.