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You are worth $16,050 to Google in ad value - stop giving them money (proton.me)
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An interesting deep-dive into how Google profiles and values different users.

It highlights that even though the service is "free", the sheer value each user holds to Google from their data and ad-revenue. And with that, the impact you can have by leaving them.

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[-] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago

I mean, you’re just wrong. An attitude like this makes you a great target for advertising and marketing.

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz -2 points 12 hours ago

I don't even have that amount of money to spend, you can argue if it's truly zero or not but I don't remember buying anything on an advert so far. Sometimes seen adverts for things I already bought and have no intention to buy again as I already have it.

[-] Balex@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

You don't have to buy directly from the advert for it to be beneficial to the advertiser.

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago

But I don't even buy their products at all

[-] Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

I think @Balex@lemmy.world means that all Google cares about is the ads getting served to you.

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 47 minutes ago

The money to pay for that must come from somewhere though. There is no way at all that anyone could be getting even remotely close to that value out of me.

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