Where's my free lunch?
summary
Free services hide real costs: registries hit billion downloads a week with no SLA and an 11‑line left‑pad removal breaks millions of builds; VC‑backed "unicorn" apps burn cash and vanish; NHS shares 1.6 million patient records with Google; Amazon Echo data becomes police evidence; Roomba maps homes for advertisers; adblocking reaches two‑thirds of young millennials; AI produces lip‑synced deepfakes and encodes human bias; GDPR and Safe Harbor collapses try to help but infrastructure and business models remain unsustainable.
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chapters (29)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:25Free services
- 2:10Upsell model
- 3:15VCs are awesome
- 4:07Airbnb for hamsters
- 4:47Fitbit for dogs
- 5:13Free ecosystems
- 7:37Who maintains OSS projects
- 10:25Free information
- 13:30Clickbait
- 14:52Social media
- 17:20Timelines
- 18:24Fake news
- 19:00Confirmation bias
- 19:58Information overload
- 23:02We sacrifice our time
- 26:51Assistant
- 28:48Internet of Things
- 29:29Privacy
- 31:20Marketing
- 31:34Web experience
- 33:01Nothing to hide
- 37:55Summary
- 38:12The bad news
- 38:52Why do I care
- 39:53Artificial Intelligence
- 40:44Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine
- 44:11We are creators
- 45:10Jurassic Park
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