I agree, being a dev myself hosting few website, and a data enthusiast, it is very hard to balance both, except if all data was open source and released for all

I agree, being a dev myself hosting few website, and a data enthusiast, it is very hard to balance both, except if all data was open source and released for all it's owners. All online platforms, especially social media relay on users input (reddit, HN, Twitter, etc ...) yet the trend seems to be heading the other way (closing down apis, etc ...), imo this is quite unfair. Not to mention awful practices by shopping giants like Amazon and Aliexpress, Airlines, Booking.com (et al.) to profile people and "scam them". The data ethic question is lost on both sides, only the few decent ones that remain are the true victims, you mom'n'pop website.