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I'm impressed at how obvious of a lie this is and how hard they're trying to do mental gymnastics to justify their argument.

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[–] smac@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 weeks ago

Selling it would be bad business. By just offering ad targeting to their customers, the customers keep coming back. Once they sell it the customer doesn't need them anymore. (used to work in an advertising-based internet business. This is how it's done.)