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by azakai 4925 days ago
I definitely see the difference. However, even in the second case, the user's data is being used to make a profit; the company collecting the data and showing the ads is making the ads more valuable - i.e. making more money off of them - with the user's data.

Again, I totally agree that selling the data to a third party is much worse.