Exactly. This blog clearly showed that tracking remained even after switching to a paid plan. These companies have tasted the forbidden fruit of surveillance capitalism and they won't roll back voluntarily.
I don't actually consider this remotely likely, but the world is getting weirder, so I'm not writing off the highly improbable so easily.
Read here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26034131
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https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=no&tl=en&u=htt...
I see what you're saying, but you're referring to something like a "market-based solution" to this problem. The one and only market-based outcome is the one we have. This is a case of imperfect information. There's no reason to expect a market-only approach to deliver a desirable outcome when one party has so much more information than the other.