re: #237 Backwoods_Sleuth

I really do not understand what this huge brouhaha is all about.
Neither Facebook nor Twitter make a dime off of me.
I never click on advertisements in either place, much less even look at them in passing on the rare occasions they show up.

And I still write actual letters that I put in actual envelopes that I stick on an actual postage stamp.
And I have an old fashioned landline and *GASP* make actual telephone calls from time to time.

JFC, the purity tests just get so tiresome.

I don’t know about Twitter, but Facebook sells personal information. That has been documented over and over again. So they make money off you.

The most recent case they didn’t sell it, they gave it away so they can get more data on you.

Facebook Didn’t Sell Your Data; It Gave It Away (The Atlantic, December 19, 2018).

In exchange for even more data about you from Amazon, Netflix, Spotify, Microsoft, and others

As for a purity test, well, I don’t do business with fascists or the fascist-curious. That’s kind of a bright line with me. Not all purity tests are bad. I don’t do business with people who have “liberal hunting license” stickers on their cars either.