You can entirely be for-profit and earn your profit without the reselling of personal data. It was more common before net 2.0, for example Google first served you one or two links of ads based on your search. No saving and forwarding user data, just simply “for X amount, your webpage will be displayed to users searching Y keyword”

no problems with being for-profit, the problem is getting money from selling the private date of those using your product

“Your private data is extremely important to us, as we make money from it”, how the hell do they manage to be this shady x(((

Why would Samsung have my health data ???

Years ago I had found a neat Windows software for this. You could just log in with your Amazon credentials and remove the DRMs on the books in your account. They could then be converted into pdfs with an other program.

I was doing this for my wife, and when she needed an other one of her books in pdf format she would ask me to “pirate” it. It pissed me off “it’s yours, it’s not piracy, it’s file conversion !!” How the industry managed to actually get people to accept the stuff they buy isn’t theirs :(

Pretty interesting read, thanks for the share !

How much does the current system cost ?

It’s funny that in Europe, our passports have been biometric for a long time, governments have our fingerprints, but the security at my base doesn’t use it, airport workers and Cabin Crews just have their own security gate

(I’m a Cabin Crew based in Vienna, Austria)

wat

Idk, in Hungary no-one uses a VPN, as neither studios nor institutions really care about piracy there