“They had to find a way to make money” is not a moral blank check.

By that logic, almost anything becomes defensible. I was out of work, so I became a contract killer. I had to find a way to make money.

No. Companies still have to follow the law. They also have the option of being decent and not tracking or sharing intimate data like sexual preferences with Meta, Google, TikTok, and the advertising industry.

I’ve been asked as a contractor to build this kind of thing. I refused, before and after GDPR. It cost me money. Fine. I can live with that.

What I cannot respect is people who decide that revenue matters more than basic privacy, then hide behind “business needs” as if that ends the conversation.