When you compose Nix flakes, each input can silently pull in its own copy of nixpkgs unless you explicitly tell it to follow your top-level one.
{ inputs = { nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable"; some-flake.url = "github:someone/cool-flake"; # without this, cool-flake brings its own …
The global data brokerage market is worth $300B+. That money flows from buyers to middlemen. The people generating the data see none of it.
Your phone produces location data, purchase history, browsing patterns, health metrics. All of it gets harvested through opaque ToS agreements and tracking pixels. Packaged. Sold. …