I feel as though you're just being nitpicky for the sake of missing the point.
the overarching issue is that this " 'End users' are hostages. The real user is the ad-company" is a terrible problem which needs to be addressed, and politicians and other elites are terribly failing to do this in the west.
> Facebook cares about making money. Period.
you misspelled "every modern corporation"
all this to try to highlight how there's a problem here, and there seems to be a failure of society at large in the capability to deal with it.