> People at large don't want to pay for software and would much rather take ads instead. But that’s not been the deal since the mid ‘00s. The deal is “ads, plu

> People at large don't want to pay for software and would much rather take ads instead. But that’s not been the deal since the mid ‘00s. The deal is “ads, plus we build a model of you and rent access to that model for anyone who’ll pay, allowing them to manipulate your politics and world-view”. That’s the deal. But they just call it “ads”. > but you will find out that there is no way you will be able to get it passed in a democracy because almost no one wants to have to pay for social media, a web browser, search engines or other such commodity software. I suspect that people do care about their data, their privacy and such. But tech is so hard, the effects so distant and the public’s ability to affect change so minimal that people guve in to the privacy breach. That’s quite different from “not caring”. I admit, this is a hunch.