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.
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.
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 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-yo...
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.