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by judge2020 1815 days ago
> I will provide you with all of my personal data for you to sell it

Reminder that Facebook and Google don't actually sell this information, you can't pay them for access to their ad database. You have to really loosen your definition of 'sell' if you want to include 'using data to target ads'.

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It's not directly selling the data, but when you target an ad, and a user takes an action on the ad (sometimes that's a click, sometimes it's just loading a beacon in the ad, sometimes the user may need to transact after a click), the advertise can correlate the targetting with the user.

That's not exactly selling the data, but it's close.

Disclosure: former Facebook employee, not in ads except for an ill-fated project that afaik hasn't launched and all my ideas were considered and rejected.