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@profdc9 @gp As to whether services abuse their users because they don't pay for them, this is manifestly wrong.

Decent treatment isn't a customer loyalty program. Companies treat you like "the product" based on whether they can get away with it - not whether you're paying them.

Sure, Apple blocked Facebook spying on iPhones - and then instituted is own mandatory, no-opt-out advertising surveillance system (and lied about it):

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/#liar-liar