@purplehippo  Eugen doesnt fully understand how he's been manipulated, but he's also actively choosing not to try to further understand, because he has a large financial incentive not to.  In law, this phenonemon is called "willful blindness" - you are actively choosing not to see something.  For example, actively choosing to look away during the commission of a crime.  They're basically paying Eugen to "look the other way" while they use Mastodon as a dataset to strip mine.  In this case, no idea how it works in the EU, but a situation of willful blindness cannot be used as a defence in civil or criminal court in Canada.  And this is rapidly going into the kind of territory that if someone cared to, they could go after him legally.  He is treating privacy very much not just unethically, but illegally.