Originally Posted by nico-t

crazy shit, the big sites all try to come up with lame excuses to gather as much of your personal information as possible. If it would be blatant, for example:
"If you want to continue using our site you have to pay us with your whole identity so we can sell it to advertisers and save it into our database in the file we have on you, which we share with the CIA and NSA."
... at least that would be honest.

But they don't say this but come up with sneaky arguments like the one you got. Sickening.