Negative, it is the farther reaching effects of this data-mining hellscape that bothers me.

Hey, I’ve seen this one and guess what, Domino’s would prefer you order again.

Today, it’s being too aggressive marketing to pregnant teens.

You mean, in 2012 a father opened her daughter’s mail and saw some suggested coupons. She had made several healthy decisions in regards to a situation she was in, it was her Dad invading her privacy that blew this up. Someone at target had noticed some sales correlations for particular vitamins. She knew she was pregnant.

Your attention is a commodity traded on the open market, whether you want to be or not. And that’s the part I have a problem with.

Yes, and even with the barrage of ads I’ve seen today, I’ve been able to choose to come back to this thread to try and convince people that something that the boogeyman of data collection is actually too expensive to weaponise and there’s some people out there who will always be assholes and taking away this particular tool will not solve anything.

Insurance, loans, gambling

I can’t help but notice that you’ve picked industries that have always been predatory. Stopping data collection doesn’t magically increase harm reduction.

It’s not just about charging fair prices for goods and services, it’s about separating people from as much money as possible, by any means necessary.

I don’t think you’ve ever been in a position to see data collection used for a good thing.

In the days of AI chatbots, is this really a far fetched idea?

No, it’s the exact reason I brought it up, ElevenLabs is magic (except that one time) it’s also why, in the very next sentance I said that you’re far more likely to be got by a romance scam. It’s just makes more sense at scale.