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"I am not much of a privacy person but I feel completely abused in this situation"

On the plus side you have been given a valuable lesson.

For example: you may be more of a privacy person that you thought, you may want to be more careful about sharing your data. You may want to consider if you are paying for a service or not makes any difference in the way your data is handled.



Since tracking and selling of data, in general, is free revenue on top of any service fees, it seems to me that successful companies will over time trend towards service fees AND tracking/selling personal data.


I agree except that such company need not be successful nor do this over time.

Every day a company is not selling your data, it is "leaving money on the table" - a mortal sin.


And we others here too? :-)




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