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		rchaud 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an "AI-firs... That's the beauty of ads. Customers don't pay, the advertisers do.

usrusr 5 months ago [–]

Customers are whoever is paying. Non-paying users are not customers, they are the resource to be sold.

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