Comment by vanuatu
4 hours ago
not to defend zuck but its a common misconception that meta sells data
advertisers dont see the personal data they buy for ad placement
4 hours ago
not to defend zuck but its a common misconception that meta sells data
advertisers dont see the personal data they buy for ad placement
There is no misconception. Meta also sells data, next to selling advertising space.
no, it doesn't sell user data. or, where can I buy some?
Brokers. Acxiom and Experian for starters.
Heck, you can buy facebook datasets right now from brightdata.
https://brightdata.com/products/datasets/facebook
Don't you recall the Cambridge Analytica scandal?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica
All corporates sells your data. You're a fool to think otherwise, data makes dosh, and you can sell any data for a price.
There are current ten plus folk in the subway carriage I am sitting in right now. Toss me £100 and I'll give you a dataset of what colour tops they're wearing and shoe laces colour.
They literally don't. Data is their moat; selling it would be counter to their financial success.
Well 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.
Why should anyone at all care about this distinction?
i care that my data isnt being sold
i dont really care that i get targeted ads, in fact i prefer targeted ads vs. ones that are of no use to me
Why wouldn't Meta also directly sell data if nobody cared about this distinction?