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They don't sell the golden goose. They rent a limited form of access to it.


Which service from Google rent user data?


Advertisers can choose to advertise to customers that fall into various buckets.

Income, gender, location, recent history of viewing specific types of pages, etc.

This is what I mean by limited form of access. Advertisers do not receive user information, but are granted the ability to use it when setting up ad campaigns.




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