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> Then your data is worthless to them

This is precisely the point. It should be worse than worthless, it should cost them money. And they should charge that to me, plus some nominal fee. I guess that's what I'm asking for.




The issue is that you're not describing a sustainable business model. Sure, it would be a much better situation than we have now, but you can't cover hosting fees with data bills.


That's a strange argument. "If we pay you for the product you give us, we'll never be able to pay our service providers. Instead, we'll give sell it to someone else."


Uh oh, someone better tell Microsoft that charging businesses for Exchange isn’t a sustainable business model.


If there was a broadly enforced requirement to pay users for their data, businesses would adapt.


How much money does Google make again?




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