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Originally Posted by Difflugia
Are there any social causes for which you'd suffer a similar level of inconvenience? I'll avoid asking you about specific examples because I don't want this to turn into a Politics & Religion discussion, but the impact of those leveraging the results of massive data analysis for private benefit at the expense of the public is, in my view, both important and profound.
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There is a benefit to the publishers knowing what I read. The benefit is that they know what sells. So they know the types of books to publish. If everyone kept 100% private in what they read, then that sort of thing would not happen and what gets published would not be based on what the readers want or it would be a subset of readers getting what they want.