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<p>[QUOTE="Jaelus, post: 3147298, member: 46237"]I understand that, but for many online businesses that provide their service for free (and even ones that charge for service), part of how they make money and subsidize your usage is with the user data. Even if they don't sell it, they may use data analytics to give users targeted advertising (which gives them a better user experience), they may use the data to learn about consumption of their service by demographic, etc. If you read the terms of service you agree to when making an account it will spell out your <i>obligation</i> to properly record this data as part of your agreement to use their service which is otherwise free (or reduced cost) to you.</p><p><br /></p><p>The choice you have is to use the service and abide by the terms of service or to not use the service at all, but that's where your choice ends. It may be that you do not use any free services that include data accountability in their terms in which case more power to you, but if that's not the case it is theft of service and of the work that many Americans have put into building those web services and is no better than illegally downloading music or movies. Stealing from other Americans is not any kind of patriotism. If you don't want to be a part of their data set, exercise your freedom to abstain from using a particular service.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jaelus, post: 3147298, member: 46237"]I understand that, but for many online businesses that provide their service for free (and even ones that charge for service), part of how they make money and subsidize your usage is with the user data. Even if they don't sell it, they may use data analytics to give users targeted advertising (which gives them a better user experience), they may use the data to learn about consumption of their service by demographic, etc. If you read the terms of service you agree to when making an account it will spell out your [I]obligation[/I] to properly record this data as part of your agreement to use their service which is otherwise free (or reduced cost) to you. The choice you have is to use the service and abide by the terms of service or to not use the service at all, but that's where your choice ends. It may be that you do not use any free services that include data accountability in their terms in which case more power to you, but if that's not the case it is theft of service and of the work that many Americans have put into building those web services and is no better than illegally downloading music or movies. Stealing from other Americans is not any kind of patriotism. If you don't want to be a part of their data set, exercise your freedom to abstain from using a particular service.[/QUOTE]
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