I'm not sure about your examples, they don't seem to be on line data harvesting tracking ads, monetizing consumers of software or content. Maybe I'm missing the

I'm not sure about your examples, they don't seem to be on line data harvesting tracking ads, monetizing consumers of software or content. Maybe I'm missing the analogy here. Anyway, it was this comment, they explained the idea better than I did maybe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20988742 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20988742