• Эшли Карамель@discuss.tchncs.de
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    11 months ago

    doesn't make sense for them to sell data though. they're such a big company with so many competitors in literally any space. why would they bother selling it when they can just buy it, hoard it to make their own network stronger?

        • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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          11 months ago

          they make enough money

          You're expecting a private company to stop at "enough"?

          selling it would actually end up LOSING them profit as that money would go to other advertising agencies.

          They do both.

          • blobjim [he/him]
            hexagon
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            edit-2
            11 months ago

            They literally don't. I don't know why you feel the need to infer some super secret financial transactions. The article is talking about "above-board" financial transactions on ad data marketplaces. Any data transferred to the US government is using their other programs which probably are more convoluted than just handing over money.

    • DocFrobozz [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      This has some strong “Trump’s already rich as we know he isn’t going to try to turn a profit on the presidency” energy