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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago

Jesus, and that’s just from selling user data

Technically no, at least not to other companies, that would be the dumbest thing for them to do

and ad placements?

Yeah, that's the one.

Companies like Google and Meta prefer not selling your data because... why feed their own competition? Their product is access to the ad network which has profiles on everyone. If they sell that data to competitors, the competitors can build a good ad network too (though the space it can sell isn't necessarily as premium of course).

They all will sell or even just share your data to some three letter government agencies though. Because those aren't competition.