[scarmig]

Inevitably, companies would arise that don't sell your data, and charge a higher fee to compensate the loss in revenue. Then, they'd go out of business as customers decide they prefer to sell all their data for a couple extra bucks.

[andrewflnr]

What actually seems to happen is that the expensive company gains customers on the premise of privacy, then eventually succumbs to the temptation to start selling some data anyway.

[hx8]

If only we had a comprehensive set of data privacy laws that allowed users to request their data be deleted and limited what companies can do with people's data.

[autoexec]

> Inevitably, companies would arise that don't sell your data, and charge a higher fee to compensate the loss in revenue.

I've been waiting for that to happen in just about every product category I have ever used since the rise of surveillance capitalism and it hasn't yet. It's a fantasy.

Companies will always make more money by charging you as much as you're willing to pay and then also selling your data and/or using it against you for the rest of your life. No company is going to leave that endless flow of money on the table and settle for charging you a slightly higher amount one time. The shareholders won't tolerate that.