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What prevents them from doing both?

• qeternity 9y ago
  Economics. The have a monopoly on this data. If they sell the raw data, they are necessarily equipping a competitor. Or they can sell the high level insights that will presumably have a larger profit margin.
  • YCode 9y ago
    What are they doing with the data that requires explicit access?
    • zamalek 9y ago
      Targeted advertising. One of them (I forget which) was MITM adverts into pages.