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I'm a data engineer, ofc I know that. But you were excusing it as if their service has costs. That's bs, because their reported earnings that done without whatever profit they are going to gain from this harvest of train data already were very profitable.
That's why I said you were in the wrong. Not because you expected them to sell everything they could, so did I, but because you justified that behaviour from the free to play model. That model exists in plenty games that are extremely successful without harvesting things beyond metadata.
I wasn’t justifying it. Perhaps that came across the wrong way.
They’re selling shit they never asked their users for and that’s bullshit, and should be illegal. Especially with children’s data.
My point was they’re doing it.
You guys agree and it's just the word "subsidy" he has an issue with because subsidies have the connotation of helping actual people.