Today, Perri Chase, a founder of Unroll.me who is no longer affiliated with the company, published a Medium post defending her co-founder and current CEO of the company, Jojo Hedaya after their company was found to be selling user data to Uber. In her post, Chase ineloquently explains that data collection shouldn’t shock users, and if it does, then “you have clearly been living under a rock.”
“Believe me we came up with this product to rid your inbox of unwanted emails, AND the reason it is used by millions of people for FREE is because we figured out how to monetize it,” she writes (emphasis hers).
While the post came off as insensitive and elitist, Chase has a point. Nothing is free online because you are paying for it in the form of...
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