Reay Jespersen (reay@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 06:39:00 JST

@That_One_Guy @Extra_Special_Carbon @Mrfunkedude

I suspect semantics in their breakdown. (E.g, they don’t “sell” the data because it still belongs to Google. They don’t “share” it because that implies no financial transaction has taken place, etc.)

I believe it’s about 90% of Google’s income these days is obtained from ad sales. That certainly isn’t from not selling access to unparalleled volumes of user data. There’s a reason they track and log the constant minutiae of what their users do.