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so you want people cant earn livelihood by your saying?????

for some people and I mean some people in this are entire industry that working with directly and indirectly. this is the only way to earn a living for them and you saying this people cant do that????

"If you want to run a business that relies on gathering obscene amounts of data on people and then using it in aggregate to commit crimes against humanity, then fine. But at least make them consent to you fucking them up the ass. I don't think that's too much to ask for."

well. you are free to choose not to?????? what we even doing here? life its about choice and you are free to not sign up service that scummy

it literally totally difference case that worth another article/post for that



> this is the only way to earn a living for them

Who are those people who literally can't earn a living in any way other than working on personalized ads?


So, so many glaring problems here:

1. Consumers can't just 'not use something' because of network effects, and you know that. Don't play stupid with me.

2. The service is scummy because they lie. That's the scummy part. Sit back and read what I wrote. I'm not saying services CAN'T commit crimes against humanity. They can! I'm saying they must DO IT HONESTLY.

If this is about choice, and you want users to choose what they want, then you have to be on my side. It's not optional. IF what you're saying is true, and consumers have the choice "not sign up service that scummy", THEN they must know if the service is scummy. Necessarily!

You are literally agreeing with me!


You are making it like they are doing human crime level hitler or some shit

No, the competing solution/alternative its not better

if there are better ways to do this, it would be born already


Which is why shrinkflation always fails right?

In a free market, consumers will pick the better option right? The one where they don't pay more for less?

Right?


> if there are better ways to do this, it would be born already

That's not how it works in capitalism. If there are more profitable ways to do this, then it would have been adopted. But better is subjective - better for whom? For the users? The businesses don't give a fuck about the users, only about their money.


> You are making it like they are doing human crime level hitler or some shit

I mean, yeah, Facebook directly caused a genocide because of their pursuit of ads. Do with that what you will.

But either way, it's like you're pulling every fallacy you can think of out of your ass!

Even if it's not a big deal, that doesn't mean we shouldn't do anything. That's stupid.

And the idea that 'oh well we don't need to think of solutions, because the magical solution fairy would've already done it' is also stupid.

How do you think stuff gets done? Who's doing it? Us! The conversation we're having is that! It's the "born already" you're talking about!




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