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Big Tech companies are becoming more toxic every day. They are a cancer. There is no better way to describe them. They run their companies based on an illegal business model without any (real) harm or penalties due to the collaboration of governments.
They have built a business model in which the customer is only a product. Your “economic value” is the only thing that matters, so the more you use their products and any website or app affiliated with them, the better for them. You are the fuel for their engine, so they make more money.
By using their products and services or browsing websites or using apps that use them, they can collect more data from you and create extremely dangerous micro profiles - something that IS ILLEGAL because of one of the Human Rights set by the UNO (United Nations Organisation), defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Article 12
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
