That's definitely true, maximizing shareholder value is all about extracting as much value as possible from your customers, until it no longer works. I'm again

That's definitely true, maximizing shareholder value is all about extracting as much value as possible from your customers, until it no longer works. I'm against most forms of recommendations as well, that doesn't mean that they're not valuable to the businesses deploying them. In most cases the end users of these systems are not the real customers of these platforms, and they're there to serve the advertisers who keep these businesses running.