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If you were a faceless algorithm yhea I wouldn’t mind, I’m giving my address and information to plenty of companies I get services from. Those false equivalences are why people don’t take you seriously.
Are you seriously this delusional? There is no "faceless algorithm", they can pull your profile at any time and give it to the highest bidder.
Wait, you actually think they sell single profiles? Go buy some tinfoil, the lizard people may come for you with all that Google data
It's usually not a "Hey, we give you a profile for $2".
It's more like "Oh, you, political party XY want to show advertisment to 2000 people? No problem... We helped you filter the perfect people... There you go, 2000 low-educated, mid-20 users who were classified as easy to manipulate by our algorithms. Bonus: They are having a hard time now and are classified are 'probably depression' (lost children or parents or their home, ...), so they are even easier to target at the moment. We will show them your propaganda for just $xxxx "
That's how they make money.
The faceless algorithm stores the the data in a database. From this point on, people with faces can access them.
I am a software developer. If I'd create a faceless form that stores the data somewhere for me, would you enter them?
There are people behind algorithms. They don't exist for the sole purpose of gathering the data for the sake of it - the data is later accessed and processed by people.
And how is that different from giving any of information to me? I'm just trying to gather some statistics here, nothing more.
Is this why Zuckerberg went to trial and the EU is preventing apps and services whose sole purpose is to hoover up some data about you to become available in its domain?