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by kisil_reboot
4690 days ago
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> Google and Facebook want to give everyone access to the Internet because they need more raw materials. More data.
The first sentence seems basically true, but the second, and the general gist of the article, is off-base. Both companies make money, on aggregate, when there are more people using the internet. Google gets more searches, more youtube views. Facebook gets more, and more active, members. Both are monetizable eyeballs without needing any fancy data extraction. Do we really need to posit some nefarious lust for "your data!!1" here? I don't see the need; the simpler hypothesis has enough explanatory power. |
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