This data is useful for reinforcement learning.
All the others do it.
And most importantly, you can just opt-out.
And most importantly, you can just opt-out.
Oh the naivety.
Sooner or later they all become the same, soon after "investors" or "shareholders" arrive.
They already arrived. Google was one of the main investors of Anthro.
Companies are less like people and more like bacteria. They are programmatic, like algorithms.
What they will do has already been decided for them, programmed into them, by the rules of capitalism. It is inevitable. There are no good guys, and there are no bad guys, there's just... microbes.
Those who do not engage in capitalism, perhaps they do not seek money at all, have no such hard limitations. But they are rare, because money is blood.