This is how they make money. Collecting and aggregating data and making these kinds of connections so that advertisements can be targeted and sold is the exchange. The more you can collect and correlate, the more you can charge for targeting demographics of people. Folks continue to be willing to give up this information, so companies like Meta will absolutely take advantage of it for profit.
They’re not interested in ethical choices, moral decisions, doing better for people or saving the world. This is purely a profitable venture, so whatever generates those dollars will keep them going.
I honestly can’t understand how any app can justify those kinds of permissions
When you’re running the biggest spyware network in the world, no amount of permissions is too much… ;-)
This is how they make money. Collecting and aggregating data and making these kinds of connections so that advertisements can be targeted and sold is the exchange. The more you can collect and correlate, the more you can charge for targeting demographics of people. Folks continue to be willing to give up this information, so companies like Meta will absolutely take advantage of it for profit.
They’re not interested in ethical choices, moral decisions, doing better for people or saving the world. This is purely a profitable venture, so whatever generates those dollars will keep them going.