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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (20 children)

And also because Google doesn't sell data.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Hahaha. That’s a joke right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If anything they'd be buying since they're the ones presenting ads... The whole data selling discussion online is always ridiculous. Who are these mystical data buyers ready to shell out billions for crappy "data" (does anyone participating in these discussions actually have a definition of what they think this ridiculously non specific ""data"" even is?) to present slightly better ads to users? Why would Google sell this data, shouldn't they want to keep it to themselves?

[–] Still 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

selling your data refers to people buying ads and being like I want to show my dog food ad to 100,000 people who have a dog, and then Google only shows the ad to people who have a dog

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

That's not what selling is. At all. Selling implies that any random person with money has access to data about you.

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