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Quote by: Jack  It all comes down to advertising. The more they know about you; your habits, your favorite sites, where you spend your time online, which apps you use, what cookies you have, what type of system you own, where you live; all that gets (supposedly anonymously) aggregated into data that can be used to target advertising even more precisely. All that data is nearly priceless for any ad company, online and off. Small fortunes have been made selling data lists no bigger than a few thousand names and parameters. Can you imagine the value of Google's stored data? |
Well there you go folks, tie it to potential profit, and you have your answer.
Did anybody learn anything?
I did.
