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this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2023
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I don't think they'll care or miss you, to be honest. It's not like they're making money off you.
Who would pay for data on a person you can't advertise to?
Do you seriously think advertisers buy each user's data individually, and sometimes Google goes "oh hey guys just a heads up, that individual is using an ad blocker 👍🏼"?
No, but having a handful of people who will never see their ads devalues the whole package.
I could totally see a company doing a market analysis paying for this data. They'd be looking for for counts of people interested in a thing or in a demographic...then they can determine if it'd be worth it to develop a product targeting that group
They’re absolutely making money
How? How do they profit off someone who refuses to view ads?
With their personal data obviously.
their personal data that they use to show them.. ads
Personal data isn’t only used for ads. In this case a users watching history can be sold especially if it’s connected in some way to a demographic profile. There could be many more ways to monetize many other things the user does.
They don't sell data. They sell ads. Selling data would directly erode their ability to sell ads.
This has a lot more info: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/google-says-it-doesnt-sell-your-data-heres-how-company-shares-monetizes-and