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by Barraketh 1027 days ago
You're right, it's just that the word "abuse" is doing a lot of work in that statement. I've still never seen any example of any person being actually damaged by the "tracking", so calling it "abuse" feels pretty harsh.
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I think "abuse" is a fair term, but I acknowledge that it's emotionally loaded. If a company is spying on me (collecting data about me, my machines, or my use of my machines without my informed consent), then I think it's not out of line to call that abusive.
Every web server logs request information. Is that spying on you too? If you go to a website, they aren't "spying" on you, you are volunteering your information to them. Stop hitting yourself.
Society as a whole is damaged by the tracking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana...
Off the top of my head: targeted ads towards people who are predisposed to gambling addictions or alcoholism