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Perhaps. Of course there is no guarantee that you are not simultaneously paying for the product while being the product. These are not mutually exclusive things.
Even paid services treat users as products, as seen with loyalty programs, companies that sell customer data despite charging fees, monetization of user engagement, etc.
There are many clever non-monetary ways to extract value from users.
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