[noman-land]

They are in the business of uniquely identifying me and organizing vast real-time bidding wars for every moment of my attention. The winners of the bidding war are the ones whose ads I (would) see (if I didn't block this garbage aggressively).

It's also been well studied how so-called anonymized datasets can be de-anonymized in various ways and then all the historical data is de-anonymized.

What you once thought was benign and not noteworthy can easily be used against you as the times and attitudes of a society change. Many examples can be seen both in modern day "cancellations" as well as in the historical record like Nazis using census data to find people with undesirable characteristics and murdering them (with IBM's help).

This is not far fetched conspiracy theory paranoia bate. It is factual events from reality.

If a company has a contract with an entity who pays them money for their services, it is literally in their interest to do it.