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Shot in the dark: their infrastructure isn't set up for it yet, so they may as well take the high road for now.

• undersuit 10y ago
  Different shot in the dark: the largest home internet provider in the US finds it far more profitable to use the data for internal projects.
  • qeternity 10y ago
    This. Why sell the raw materials when you can sell the finished product? That's where the value add is.
    • YCode 10y ago
      What prevents them from doing both?
      • qeternity 10y ago
        Economics. The have a monopoly on this data. If they sell the raw data, they are necessarily equipping a competitor. Or they can sell the high level insights that will presumably have a larger profit margin.
        • YCode 10y ago
          What are they doing with the data that requires explicit access?
          • zamalek 10y ago
            Targeted advertising. One of them (I forget which) was MITM adverts into pages.