I get what you're saying but at least with Google, I have a known unknown quantity of craptastic behavior.

Adding more layers of vulnerability to my life with these apps, with little payout, hurts me more than it helps me.

For instance, I've used all of these apps (never could afford the NFT sneaks in Stepn but I still tried the app). After the first day having the sweatcoin app, I noticed my tv ads were different on hulu, my ads coming into my inbox were different and the ads coming to my phone through brave changed also.

It's probably astonishing how much data is packaged and sold