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You are selling google short. Google doesn't sell their consumer data to anyone directly. They use it to help inform advertisers how to sell stuff to you. Uprol
by zitterbewegung 10y ago
You are selling google short. Google doesn't sell their consumer data to anyone directly. They use it to help inform advertisers how to sell stuff to you. Uproll is directly selling data about their customers to third parties for whoever will pay.
- obstinate 10y agoThey don't inform advertisers of anything. They allow advertisers to bid to show you an ad. That's all.
- newsat13 10y agoThis is not true of unroll. From the blog, "I can't stress enough the importance of your privacy. We never, ever release personal data about you. All data is completely anonymous and related to purchases only. To get a sense of what this data looks like and how it is used, check out the Slice Intelligence blog.". So they are the same as Google. At the end of the day, nobody outside the company truly knows if either of them sell identifiable information.
- TheCoelacanth 10y agoYMMV on how anonymous anonymized data actually is considering that most people are uniquely identified by the combination of date of birth, zip code and gender[1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2942967 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2942967