I was specifically responding about your outrage how internet 'mobs' demand forgiveness from the people they've supposedly wronged. The whole comment was just me talking from the perspective of a possible self identified victim and how that person (me) would respond in such a case.

Forgiveness would've to happen for me to trust that party again, which would be a requirement for me becoming a user/paying for the service again. If that possible other party doesn't care about wherever the people they've supposedly wronged use/pay for their services, then there is obviously no need for any interaction after that point.

And as I said before: none of this applied to ddg, as they didn't spy on their user. They implemented a leaky feature, which they've committed to changing.