To your (b) - Its nerds like us that enable those companies. To blame the "companies" also means to blame the individuals who work at those companies. Its easy

To your (b) - Its nerds like us that enable those companies. To blame the "companies" also means to blame the individuals who work at those companies. Its easy to blame Google, but we celebrate their engineers at tech conferences when they talk about technically challenging stuff. Sure, thats cool, but then they go back from the conference and check in some code to mine someones inbox or track their online activity. The buck stops everywhere on the way to the top. Like.. these are the richest of the richest companies in the richest country by far whose owners are also amongst the richest people on earth, and they won't hire people to do real reviews or checks of inventory or speak to customers or review advertising campaigns for shady or misleading ads, and tons of other things that people complain about. "It doesn't scale" == "I'll take the hit when someone eventually games the system".