I mean, there are far more nefarious things happening in big tech, so if the author feels they were somehow being "used" in an immoral sense, I think they should feel ok about themselves based on the types of knowingly wrong but technically legal things happening in large companies.

What's confusing to me is that there is no discussion about the actual downside experienced it's just theoretical.

There seemed to be no real discussion about anything! I was expecting more of a conclusion, but the article did not support the proposition in the headline.