What's the reason you asked this question? I mean, yeah, you could have stayed silent, and nowadays everyone assumes that pointing out obvious things in a condescending tone is kind of insightful, just because you used enough ellipses.

Back then we all knew: vague rhetorical questions aren't arguments.

Technically, it's not a big surprise at all that someone would restate "you are the product" like it's a revelation. There is nothing novel at all.

And non-technically, yeah, as you said... You tried to weather a paragraph of empty meaning. You know that this comment says absolutely nothing actionable. You've known since word one. Nobody can actually be stupid enough to not instantly see that. It's impossible to not understand it.

Your strategy so far was to just scold. Who of you has expected a productive outcome, given this "mediocre" contribution, to say it veeeeeery friendly?

On the one hand, this really sounds frustrated, and I know why you are (bcs we both know that I'm right).

But beyond that unhappy story, your comment actually made me smile. Linguistically, let's say. And there is no sarcasm at all. It was funny to read!!

> What's the actual problem? I mean, yeah, time passed by... And nowadays everyone assumes that all these services are kind of fine, just because time passed by.

I didn’t make an account on LinkedIn before, and I never will in the future either.

Hopefully, continuing to point out shady practices from sites will help more people stay away from them too as time goes on.

You see here how smart they are. And here you definitely read from the smarter one, compared to some average John Doe.

So, no, there is no chance. Whenever you think "this might now finally help to make enough people understand", they'll quickly prove the opposite.

"What's the actual problem? I mean, yeah, time passed by... And nowadays everyone assumes that all these services are kind of fine, just because time passed by."

no no no no no no no, These sites go on the blacklist.

Either it was there since day 1, together with Facebook and some others, or your blacklist is a pointless show.

What nobody started discussing so far: Every user actively pushed these shady sites. They are/were all active parts of the problem. And usually they somehow knew it. They'll come with lame excuses, as if the issue ever was a technical one, and too difficult to get, but in fact, no, things cannot be more obvious. To everyone who ever got in touch with other human beings. It never was a tech problem.

I'm excited when this discussion will start. But we are far away from it yet.