Wil Wheaton on Instagram's new ad policy
Axiom 1: Company is collecting and storing personal data that you voluntarily provide<p>Axiom 2: Company does not charge you for this service<p>Axiom 3: Company has no other visible means of income<p>Axiom 4: Company has non-trivial operating expenses<p>Given that this covers a huge amount of "our digital life", there are a few possible solutions:<p>- Keep getting services without paying money but paying with privacy<p>- Identify another way to get the services we rely on to be paid for<p>- Hope that a large benefactor company will buy the services we use and write the operational cost off out of the goodness of their hearts