• BroBot9000@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    It’s not that they want to look at what you do or take YOUR money. This is an entire market created around spying on people and selling them to advertisers. Just because your info is dull doesn’t mean it’s not marketable.

    Man in his 40s, USA citizen, porn connoisseur

    That’s more than enough to start bids on the ad spaces that you encounter. They also have a lot more information about you than just that.

    The data they have now is helping them already. Not on some future date.