Sure first you can just advertise inferior goods. The quarterly thirty dollar boots when people can no afford longer the 120 dollar boots which last years. Later you can start advertising cheap credit to cover daily needs. Then the datamining starts. If people can't provide revenue directly we'll collect so much data that some profit generating stream will appear. But eventually the entire sector should collapse as the consumer won't have money to spend freely.
never underestimate the level of creativity and talent that goes into inventing new ways to fuck us over. i imagine it was inconceivable a few decades ago 'advertizing' would pivot into outright spying but here we are
Guarantee of a share of future earnings in exchange for an education, anyone?