It’s genuinely some ho ass shit basically every digital device that exists collects your data and sells it to data brokers 

To opt out is to live a life of extreme friction and vigilance 

And to get your data erased from the brokers you just have to pay another tech company a subscription fee

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It's getting worse with AI making the data even more valuable. Reddit treats its users as their own livestock, generating data they can sell.

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It’s so frustrating. the problem is so abstract and the way to opt out so difficult it’s tough to get people to care. And I’m not sure that an individual’s data on its own is always that valuable making pay schemes somewhat infeasible or unattractive