well, yes, but they are only tracking what content i watch or read, they are not what ads i see and whether i click on them (since there are no ads). so it is s

well, yes, but they are only tracking what content i watch or read, they are not what ads i see and whether i click on them (since there are no ads). so it is slightly different. and this tracking of views also happens equally in the free version. free = track content views + track ad views and clicks. paid = track content views only the privacy implications of tracking content are different from the privacy implications of tracking ads, especially because ads can track across different content sites in ways that pure content tracking on eg youtube or netflix can not. the problem is that the ad tracking gets shared with the advertisers whereas content tracking mostly doesn't get shared as far as i can tell. imagine how people would react if it came out that youtube or netflix would share which content people watch. we just had a discussion about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39808994 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39808994