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You're right in that respect, but it says "to advertisers". My data would be valuable as potential blackmail, or as you suggest: Not giving me a job, but for advertisers not so much.

It's my feeling that for the majority of people their browsing data will rarely translate to direct sales.




Dear mrweasel,

Our unencrypted database was compromised and all your browsing history and our analysis of your daily habits is now on sale on blabnlablabla.onion/sell.php?product=123 starting from 0.002BTC per year of history of a user.


Maybe it would be useful to detect click fraud on existing ad networks?

Or to make attribution easier for multiple devices in the same household?

Both of those make ad spending more efficient, which translates directly into better revenue for companies buying ads.




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