[ynx]

You're only minorly wrong in that they don't sell access to the behavioral data [1] , but you do realize that you sound absolutely unhinged about it, right? Is HN surveilling my post because I typed here and pressed the 'reply' button?

I've never convinced someone of flaws in ethics by framing the perpetrator as a big bad boogeyman to the nth degree. It's unproductive self-satisfaction.

[1] They sell visibility to people queried against proprietary behavioral data.

[yedava]

There is mounting evidence that social media harms mental health[1]. I'm pretty sure when links between smoking and cancer were being established, there were plenty of people calling that evidence "unhinged", particularly if the evidence hurt their paychecks. Not saying that such people were willfully malicious, but that there are strong cognitive biases in favor of ignoring anything that can hurt their livelihoods.

https://www.afterbabel.com/p/the-teen-mental-illness-epidemi...