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There is no misconception. Meta also sells data, next to selling advertising space.
by jbuhbjlnjbn 4mo ago
There is no misconception. Meta also sells data, next to selling advertising space.
- spongebobstoes 4mo agono, it doesn't sell user data. or, where can I buy some?
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- doublerabbit 4mo agoBrokers. Acxiom and Experian for starters. Heck, you can buy facebook datasets right now from brightdata. https://brightdata.com/products/datasets/facebook https://brightdata.com/products/datasets/facebook Don't you recall the Cambridge Analytica scandal? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica All corporates sell your data. You're a fool to think otherwise, data makes dosh, and you can sell any data for a price. Data is a commodity. There are current ten plus folk in the subway carriage I am sitting in right now. Toss me £10 and I'll give you a dataset of ten people of what colour tops they're wearing and what brand of shoe and colour. And yes you can sell your internet data too. https://www.moneymagpie.com/make-money/make-money-selling-your-personal-data https://www.moneymagpie.com/make-money/make-money-selling-yo...
- spongebobstoes 4mo agothis is just not correct. the brightdata link is a data set scraped from Facebook, not sold by Facebook Cambridge Analytica was the same thing, scraped from Facebook by people who voluntarily (perhaps ignorantly) gave their data to quiz apps like "what kind of horse are you?" Facebook does not sell user data, and it never has
- seattle_spring 4mo agoThey literally don't. Data is their moat; selling it would be counter to their financial success.
- jbuhbjlnjbn 4mo agoWell not in bulk to its advertisement competitors as you seem to suggest. But as a different revenue stream, data collectors sell the collected information. Don't be naive, of course they do, first customer are governments.