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Mainly we're talking about avoiding mass surveillance, not simply about privacy. There's no technical or practical reason to allow mega-corporations to track our every online move.
It's valuable to advertisers and subsidizes cost.
Fuck advertisers.
Based
Poor baby, show me on the full where they touched you.
Show me on the doll where you let advertisers touch you. I suspect it's most all of your orifices?
Got me!
Precisely. The mega-corporations want it because it's good for them.
And you. It makes services more affordable.
That's not necessarily true. Both Amazon and Google make a lot of money with search engines and both of them are intentionally doing a worse job now than they did several years ago.