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
Ads and Analytics Partners, brought to you by https://steemit.com/privacy.html :
We may partner with third-party advertisers, ad networks, and analytics providers to deliver advertising and content targeted to your interests and to better understand your use of the Services. These third parties may collect information sent by your computer, browser, or mobile device in response to a request for content, such as unique identifiers, your IP address, or other information about your computer or device.
Interesting, I hadn't heard of that before. Hmm.
Nobody has, because they don't read the FAQ, privacy policy and TOS... lol
Time to go back using the cli_client for posting and curating I guess. xP
Or you can setup and run your own
condenserhttps://github.com/steemit/condenser
I am a bot