[dasudasu]

Could anyone in the 90s and early 00s have imagined that the internet would end up being one big competition for who can monitor and track their users best, just to run the most efficient ads, and that this value would be in the hundreds of dollars per user?

[soared]

That’s not even a good take. Clearly it’s not one big competition for that - you’re on HN right now which is not competing.