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The biggest players are Google / Facebook, which are not charging for their core product.

You have Microsoft selling software, but I am not sure it is the default anymore.

Google absolutely does charge. Google suite products are sold to corporations a service. Individuals buy gmail/drive storage. There's Youtube premium, Google Cloud...

This is just an objectively wrong take.

These aren't their core product.

Ah yes youtube, not a core product /s

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