• Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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      10 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
        10 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.