> You are being manipulated and abused just like the consumers you are targeting Their first sentence was more correct: consumers are also getting value and th

> You are being manipulated and abused just like the consumers you are targeting Their first sentence was more correct: consumers are also getting value and the question is more whether the true cost is worth the benefit. For some people it definitely is, especially those who are skeptical and thus learn/measure/etc themselves. For others they give away far more than they get. For society/humanity as a whole it’s an open question, even more so once you start to include the second-order effects (in both directions, good and bad).