Reply to post: Re: Radical Change of Business Model

Facebook suspends, investigates CubeYou, another data-harvester

GIRZiM

Re: Radical Change of Business Model

> With revenue coming directly from users, there's no need to rely on inefficient analytics, selling ads and the legally difficult business of selling access to user data.

If only everyone were as fundamentally decent as you *sigh*.

You're like the people who believe the urban myth about the guy/gal who woke up in a bath full of ice, missing a kidney. The thing is that the kind of person who'll steal your kidney doesn't leave a trail of paper (receipts for bathtubs), people (from whom thy obtained a second-hand/stolen bathtub) or data (fingerprints and DNA where they broke into an apartment/house to use the bathtub). Nor do they stop at a single kidney but take both kidneys, both lungs, your liver, spleen, eyes and anything else of value.

The idea that the companies would take our money and that'd be that is as sweetly innocent as the idea that organ-leggers are okay sorts really and care enough to leave you lying in a bathtub full of ice. If only more people were like you the world would be a better place and I salute you for having managed to hold on to your faith in humanity against the odds - you haven't let the bar stewards grind you down.

What will really happen though is that they'll take our money and still do all the data-harvesting as well.

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