• dan@upvote.au
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    1 month ago

    Facebook doesn’t sell your data, nor does Google. That’s a common misconception. They sell your attention. Advertisers can show ads to people based on some targeting criteria, but they never see any user data.

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        1 month ago

        Selling your data would be stupid, because they make money with the fact that they have data about you nobody else has. Selling it would completely break their business model.

        • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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          1 month ago

          Depends why they are selling it, to whom, and under what restrictions.

          Yes, they don’t make the majority of their money from selling actual data, but that doesn’t mean they don’t do it.