People don't know the extent to which their privacy is being invaded. People don't know what kind of deal they're making; there is no informed consent. The pre

People don't know the extent to which their privacy is being invaded. People don't know what kind of deal they're making; there is no informed consent. The presumption that a website must offer value otherwise it wouldn't have any visitors, is false. Some websites just make people unhappy and anxious, but they are addictive (and engineered to be addictive) so people keep coming back regardless. There are no rational consumers, and if you design the web (or society at large) under the presumption that people are perfectly rational you end up with a sad dystopia. Content is being produced at such a rate that there is absolutely no reason to be concerned that crummy websites that use unethical practices go out of business. Good riddance, I'd say.