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Did investments not go up in value before online data harvesting?

• hhellomars6 2y ago
  > Did investments not go up in value before online data harvesting? They did. But not in 2024.
• M95D 2y ago
  They did, but those companies who don't do it today are doomed to fail because the other companies that do will sell more, including both products and users' data.
  • dorkwood 2y ago
    I find it hard to believe those are the only two options: buy and sell user data, or fail.
    • M95D 2y ago
      Well... if the company's main activity is refining oil, cultivating corn, or trawler fishing, then maybe it doesn't need to buy and sell user's data, because, you know, there aren't any... Also, there are companies like FairPhone and System76 that (probably) don't buy and sell user's data. But they aren't exactly thriving.