[ajaxaddicted]

Some valid points. At the end of the day, until the governments around the world reign in the offenders with regulations and potential jail time (GDRP and such), nothing is going to change for the masses.

Just like every other cycle in the human history - abuse until a breaking point is reached, regulations come in, find some other niche ripe for "disruption", repeat the cycle.

Unrelated to the main topic - writing about the surveillance economy in a Medium post, which itself is a textbook example of the surveillance economy devaluates the core message a little bit for me.

[avmich]

Judging by how fast advertisers left some political outlets, it could be possible to discourage cooperation with aforementioned corporations. For software engineers to work in those may become career-limiting.