> FWIW, doing that is actually possible these days with all the GDPR data export options, just a little tedious It's tedious to the point that it is something

> FWIW, doing that is actually possible these days with all the GDPR data export options, just a little tedious It's tedious to the point that it is something else. The same reason the web is scrape-based rather than api-based today. When something is ancillary and done for compliance alone, you rarely get what you are looking for. Say everyone had their own personal, live, accurate, predictable, actual data tree: facebook - friends - posts twitter - posts - followers email contacts - etc. There would likely be an ecosystem of new services that create new value for you from that data. Combining things, extracting insights, backing things up, sharing things, organizing things, AI'ing things. > 2. Because they're YouTube videos that you watched on YouTube and pressed the like button on YouTube. Yes, that's how it is now, but it can be that going to youtube is granting them access to a branch of your tree on your server (which could be an encrypted managed 3rd-party). > 3. "Why is sharing my GITHUB repo something GITHUB has to do, and not me?" - see the problem now? As above, github the service can be made to operate on data that is yours in your warehouses. > there's no money in it for them They are still the app, they make the interconnections, they have tons of the valuable data and meta data.