I hate free cloud services needing a login. Just let me fucking access the damn app. What difference does it make, it's literally free anyways?? I just want to make a god damn spreadsheet and now I need to login to like 3 different microsoft accounts

WHYYYYYYY

Bc you're the product and they must know who they sell

because emails are considered gold lead magnets for marketing

wait til you realize often they won't let you have that free tier unless you put in your credit card or phone number. they can resell that data, and your real name is connected to it so they can connect everything with that

same as the email. I've signed up to places then got blasted with spam emails from other vendors. they sold my email. kicker is this was a store I bought things at to get delivered to my house. it wasn't even a free service or a tech service

if it's free, you're not the customer, but the product.

you simply pay with your data instead of your money.

@electrineer beat me to it.

@jestdotty I once voted on the best fun store from a city. The owner was a friend. He could win smth with it. After that, I received a shitload of spam from ten different companies. Now we know how they pay the prices for store owners.

you provide details while signing up, they get the data to target or sale your digital info to make money