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Twitter Reddit Unity Blizzard Microsoft Epic Google All of the Movie industry. All of the animation industry. All of the Gaming publishers.
Basically, everything, everywhere.
You forgot car companies asking for subscriptions to use your heated seats.
Cars are going to get really terrible really soon if not already. They are becoming less of mechanical machines on wheels and more of computers on wheels. Car companies like Tesla are already harvesting every tiny bit of personal data from you as they possibly can. Other car manufacturers aren't much better. It is truly a privacy nightmare. Any new car you get you will basically have to gut it and cut out the part that tracks everything you do.
https://theintercept.com/2021/08/05/infrastructure-bill-travel-data-cars-privacy/
And soon that will potentially be tax evasion
Cars are the worst. What a terrible blight on the US.