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> > There are many, many companies that the general public do not buy things from yet suffer their harms.

> Examples, please? I find this claim extremely dubious.

Any company purchasing my data without my knowledge and selling it to advertisers.

You have to use a service that harvests your data for that to happen. That's your choice. Nobody is forcing you. There is certainly no need to have a public vote to outlaw the companies. (Now, if you were to propose that our lawmakers outlaw the ad-supported business model, so that companies providing the services that now harvest data to make money would have to make the users of their services paying customers instead...)

Also, do you buy anything that the advertisers who buy your data are selling?

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