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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.