> require google to either compensate users for harvesting their metadata This. Youtubers get compensated, why not ordinary users. Search, shopping and social

> require google to either compensate users for harvesting their metadata This. Youtubers get compensated, why not ordinary users. Search, shopping and social media is work... It's the current year and billions are stuck home , many without even jobs. > How would this work? First you need a legal framework that allows users to sell their metadata. GDPR makes it illegal, but that's wrong. If this data has value (apparently it has a lot of value) , it should be tradeable for services. Incidentally, i think one of the benefits of the DoJ action is that it gets people talking about solutions that people called 'crazy' until yesterday.