And for the past 40 years, people and companies have been selling their “user data” from one entity to another, so it really doesn’t require any particular one of them to last more than an average human lifetime.

Granted, I’m 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% sure the comment you replied to was really only making a joke, so no pedantry is really required.