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Re:Why Lichess will always be free by fnord123 on Friday April 23, 2021 @06:26AM (#26913129)
>When it becomes evil is when it intentionally tries to deceive us, capture and processe insane amounts of information about us, and influence the display of information for its own ends. If I did that to my wife, it wouldn't be OK.

No single snowflake is responsible for the avalanche. Even if a single ad is not inherently evil, in aggregate they have become a problem.

Re:Why Lichess will always be free by blowski on Friday April 23, 2021 @06:37AM (#26913210)
To stretch your analogy:

1. Not all snowflakes become avalanches.

2. If we didn't have snowflakes, we wouldn't have snow, and that would cause huge problems as well.