The comment is about the case google won for collection and selling data of individuals and the ramifications of that case. This is the primary underlying issue in the present.
The right to own and sell a part of a person—their digital self is ultimately a forfeiture of autonomous citizenship. It is also an implied forfeiture of freedom of information which is the third pillar of democracy. Allowing the ownership over a part of a citizen is giving up citizenship. This is why you do not own anything, and everything is a subscription, and enshitification; it is all due to this one core issue of your right to own all of yourself free from slavery including the sale and exploitation of a part of your person. This is a master link, the precedent that lead to where we are at. “The ads based internet” is about the sale and collection of your personal data with the intent to exploit you. That is a violation of a fundamental human right. This was never about banner ads. It is about placing people in information bubbles and spheres of influence. It is about stupid consumers and corporate overlords extracting taxes for every move a peasant makes. Such is the true power of controlling information. Like your internet search results are not deterministic. It does not matter where you search. There are only 2 web crawlers that are relevant in the present world; Google/Microsoft. All others indirectly query these two. They can fingerprint and track nearly everyone in real time. You are being targeted for more than just ads. This is the death of democracy because a citizen must be autonomous and well informed in any democracy and this is not possible when you can be manipulated through bowdlerization and targeted misinformation or overload.
Psychological screening likely has a strong bias against this situation. One of the key aspects of selection is personality compatibility and how a person responds under great immediate stress. Astronauts are the people that are calm and totally under control while the craft they are flying is disintegrating around them. That is why they were first selected from the ranks of military test pilots.
People process these things differently too. I am very depressed because of my physical disability, but it is entirely circumstantial and nothing can change that circumstance. The only real issue in my situation is if a person is unaware of the effects that depression can have and it causes negative actions. I have meds I acquired just by asking my general practitioner. I’ve had a couple of bouts of existentialism in a negative spiral. Taking meds dulled me until the circumstances changed. In my situation, this is the only real treatment; just dull the person medically. I’m generally more self aware than most people seem in this respect, but I think you will find a similar type of trait in astronauts. The person’s Machiavellian scale will have an effect on how they process emotions against their functional thought and personality too.