alt Hacker NewsHas the cattle benefitted from the free food the rancher gave it? I suppose it's a question of perspective.
And yes, there's local players building that are targeting precisely those users. No data harvesting is a major selling point of many European startups. Think of Proton, Mullvad, Nextcloud as a few examples.
How many of those cattle have been slaughtered in the past 20 years? Unless seeing a Coca-Cola ad counts as slaughter. I suppose some could feel that way
It's also great that European startups have privacy services, I pay for proton myself, but none of these guys make any money compared to the ad model giants.
The cattle are free to leave the farm and pay full price for their feed elsewhere and get guarantees. But again, so far virtually zero cattle have been slaughtered at the "free" farm in the last two decades, and the pay-for-feed farms are comparatively vacant.