[gretch]

Yup, also work in big tech and confirm this.

One really just has to think through the situation rationally, even assuming the most greediest of intentions:

> Clickbait to get every privacy-minded tech enthusiast on their site

Turns out the market of privacy-minded tech enthusiast is tiny and they hate clicking on ads. Trying to cajole this group into giving you money is pulling teeth.

Understood.

Let's deploy the same set of company resources and effort on the 99.99% other people in the market place, increase some efficiency by like 0.1% and make waaaayyyy more money.