That is more a sound bite meme than anything factual. They can only sell the root data once to people who likely have no idea how to use it for advertising and

That is more a sound bite meme than anything factual. They can only sell the root data once to people who likely have no idea how to use it for advertising and would rapidly lead to very bad looking headlines the first time a stalker used it. Meanwhile they can use it to sell ads indefinitely.