[188175] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent - Google - HE Fun
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Thu Mar 10 11:36:20 2016
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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 10:24:11 -0600
From: Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>
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Once upon a time, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> said:
> In fairness, however, this is because he is not Google’s customer, he
> is Google’s product. Google is selling him (well, information about him
> anyway) to their customers. They gather this information by offering
> certain things he wants in exchange for him allowing them to collect
> and redistribute this data.
False supposition; Google does actually sell services as well. $DAYJOB
pays Google for services, and has paid Cogent for network access.
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Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>
