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by thanatropism 3231 days ago
It's a completely different product.

As much as privacy is a legitimate concern, it's also a modern form of angst. So the existentialist mode that says "oh, you either have chicken and wait to die or have the beef and wait to die", which is demodé, gets replaced by "you either have chicken and get massacred by the social media-advertising-mass scale espionage nexus, or..."

(Angst isn't necessarily a bad thing either, but you should know...)