| > but who should be and shouldn't be in business based on tracking is not for you (or me, or anyone) to decide I generally agree with the poster. A majority of "modern" companies that pop up have one of two strategies nowadays: 1. No sustainable business model, nothing to sell to users. Grow as fast as possible, get bought by one of the established megacorps. 2. The product is kind of there, but it is only an excuse to grab as much data as possible. Again nothing to sell to actual users. The ad business has kind of become a market that trades among themselves, they don't sell anything but the promise for others to sell more, except now companies that mainly sell ads also buy advertisements for their business. It's become a huge house of cards and you really have to wonder what the reason for their existence is. Thinking purely as a customer the fact that I have just no way to just give a company my money and in turn they'll just leave me alone with all of their useless and hostile bull** is hugely frustrating and I think they deserve to go out of business if they truly have no other way to keep the shop running. No, I do not want this single strawberry for free just for you to break into my house and photocopy as many documents as you can (and leak them to the public a few months later because you don't care a single bit about keeping your data secure)... |