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FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free” (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by oakey66 to c/technology
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It’s about time that Intuit was called out for their scam. Hopefully, the attempt to stop the federal tax filing will get dismissed as well.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Services provided by for profit corporations are almost never truly free. It usually means "free" in exchange for access to your user data or "free" if you watch these advertisements. That's not free, it's an exchange of your data that's valuable for resell to a company or your time to watch their ads.

[–] FlyingSquid 6 points 1 year ago

There's an adage- if the service is free, you aren't the customer.