Comment by const_cast

The difference is the toilet is pretty important. Hard to live without a toilet...

But these privacy-violating actions are completely optional, so optional in fact you need to go very far out of the way to implement them. Most of them rely on shady pseudo-vulnerabilities, which may be patched at any point. And they sometimes are - I mean, entire businesses have been killed by this sort of thing.

It's risky. You're relying on the legislator, yes, but you're also relying on platforms. If your revenue rides on some rare, convoluted "feature" in Chrome, for instance, Google can fix that at any point and you're fucked.

So just stop doing that. It's a bad idea. These companies need to find more reliable and ethical revenue streams. If you do volatile shit then yeah, it's volatile.