• Demuniac@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They are. They provide you with a service for your data. It’s called YouTube. And if they don’t have a place to show you ads, the data is useless because no one will use it. It’s a closed loop.

    And even if you don’t agree with it, it’s still a company selling a service and it can do whatever it wants to earn money from it. There’s nothing unethical about that.

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        1 year ago

        Why? Who made the rules about exchanging data? And it is an exchange of data for a service, it’s just not as obvious as you might want it to be. But nothing comes for free.

        Hey I’m not saying I like the big company ethic scathing that’s been going on around the world, but it is how our society currently works.