Comment by BriggyDwiggs42

The issue to me is that these companies have operated and continue to operate by obfuscating the nature of their surveillance to users. This isn’t a system of informed consent to surveillance in exchange for free services; it’s a system of duping ordinary people into giving up sensitive personal information by drawing them in with a free service. I’m almost certain this model could still exist without the surveillance. They could still run ads; the ads would be less targeted.