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nyrikkiyesterday at 7:12 PM1 replyview on HN

This is exactly why I moved to self hosted code in 2017.

While I couldn’t have predicted the future, even classic data mining posed a risk.

It is just reality that if you give a third party access to your data, you should expect them to use it.

It is just too tempting of a value stream and legislation just isn’t there to avoid the EULA trap.

I was targeting a market where fractions of a percentage advantage were important which did drive my what at the time was labeled paranoia


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