Comment by doctorpangloss

> How about behavioral manipulation via microtargeting...

I don't know. Ads are meant to convince you to buy something. Are they "behavioral manipulation?" Are all ads harmful?

> ...economic harm via price discrimination...

Should all price discrimination be "illegal?" This is interesting because it makes sense for the FTC and for anti-trust regulators to worry about consumer prices. Price discrimination in software services - the thing I know about - helps the average consumer, because it gets richer people to pay more and subsidize the poor.

> reselling of the data via monetization to unscrupulous aggregators or third parties

"Unscrupulous" is doing a lot of work here.

> ...general security reduction...

Gmail and Chrome being free ad subsidized has done a lot more for end user security than anything else. Do you want security to be only for the rich? It really depends how you imagine software works. I don't know what APT stands for.

> chilling effect of being tracked all the time in this way?

Who is chilled?

I guess talk about some specific examples. They would be really interesting.