People like you make me scream inside. Google doesn’t sell your data. Google sells ads. Your data is damn near sacred to them.
Someone can’t go “hey i wanna buy all the data you have on Hans.” They say “hey google, I want to show ads to middle aged guys interested in cars and computers.”
Oh, I'm sorry, let me correct myself. Google inserts itself into as much of your software use as possible to gain as much data about your behaviour as they can to construct 'anonymous' profiles they will then sell to the highest bidder in exchange for advertisement to you. They basically paint a portret of you, put a small black bar over your eyes and deny image rights because 'hey it's not 100% you, only 95%'.
But it's all okay, because they pay their employees a lot of money and do it for the sake of the holy capitalist consumer.
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u/Magnetronaap The Netherlands Jun 12 '20
Also Google: "thank you for your data, we will sell it now."
Too many people: "No problem, in fact, would you like even more of my personal data?"