The lies of free sign-ups

Sometimes ignorance is bliss but not when it’s your data that is in danger.

When I say browsing through any website isn’t free, I don’t mean the price you pay to your internet service providers or the price you pay for your electricity bill. It's not even the price you pay to get hold of the electronic devices to access such accounts; instead, it's your data—your private information—which is sold; auctioned off to the highest bidder. Over and over again. To quote an Internet user named “bluebeetle” “If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.”