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Ad supported products are not free, as you actually pay with your data. It is very insidious.

Again: you pay not only with your data. The cost of advertising is already included in the cost of the product being advertised. You pay for it both ends.

Sure, but it must also be recognized that this is true only if you value your data.

In our bubbles we all certainly do. But in the context of a resident in a developing country who can’t afford to pay, the trade off of allowing access to your data rather than no access at all seems more ethical.

It might be enlightening for you to apply this line of reasoning to historical forms of exploitation. But no, it is not ethical to exploit someone just because they can't afford alternatives.

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