Many of us here are old enough to remember the promise of web 2.0 where "APIs will talk with APIs making everything super fast and automated". Then, businesses realized that they do no in fact just "sell a product" but have this entire flywheel and side hustle they depend on to extract maximum value from the user.

Oh and also turns out if the data you share is easily collected it can be analyzed and tracked to prove your crimes like price gauging, IP infringement and other unlawful acts - that's not good for business either!