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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.