Google Says It Doesn’t 'Sell' Your Data. Here’s How the Company Shares, Monetizes, and Exploits It

[ForgottenSeer 85179]

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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/google-says-it-doesnt-sell-your-data-heres-how-company-shares-monetizes-and

Google controls about 62% of mobile browsers, 69% of desktop browsers, and the operating systems on 71% of mobile devices in the world. 92% of internet searches go through Google and 73% of American adults use YouTube. Google runs code on approximately 85% of sites on the Web and inside as many as 94% of apps in the Play store. It collects data about users’ every click, tap, query, and movement from all of those sources and more.

So what is happening with all of that data, which Google says it’s not selling, but from which it makes tens of billions of dollars a year?

Let’s find out.

 

[Divine_Barakah]

They donate your data to charities.

 

[Antus67]

Who's fooling Who??? All those billions of dollars came from somewhere.

 

[ForgottenSeer 85179]

Who's fooling Who??? All those billions of dollars came from somewhere.

Sure and Google is one of them.

 

[Cortex]

Google is in my opinion the Devil incarnate ..

 

[MalwareTypes]

Google doesn't sell our data in the same way a flour company doesn't sell grains.

 

[ForgottenSeer 85179]

Google doesn't sell our data in the same way a flour company doesn't sell grains.

Data are Google's business.
Did I need saying more?