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You are worth $16,050 to Google in ad value - stop giving them money (proton.me)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [M] to c/PurchaseWithPurpose@lemmy.world
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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.

If you haven't already switched, you can check out the guide below to get started:

https://purchasewithpurpose.io/

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[–] -3 points 4 months ago (5 children)

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.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    But I don't even buy their products at all

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    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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