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K. Q. Dreger:

We forget that using free online services almost guarantees our information is being sold to help pay the bills. Email, social networks, news sites. They all sell the same thing, often to advertisers: us. We need to be more conscientious about what companies we let use our data.

Keep this in mind whenever you sign up for a free online service. And always consider alternatives that charge for their services, but treat you and your data with a little more respect.

David Sparks, regarding the Unroll.me controversy:

It’s often argued that you should only use web services that require payment because free services won’t be able to stay in business. However, even scarier in my book are the free services that manage to stay in business and the things they do with your data to keep the lights on.

Be careful out there.