> *Most importantly though, Steem and Steemit don't rely on advertisement revenue so they don't have the need to sell their users information to advertisers/others.*

Not quite true. I wrote about that months ago
https://steemit.com/@drakos/steemit-s-disturbing-ads-policy


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