746

It seems so strange to me that we are locked in battle with providers mining our lives for whatever, and we have to work our asses off trying to stay anonymous, to the point of being denied service (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

152 comments fedilink hide all child comments

or even pseudo-incriminated for attempting to maintain our own life.

It seems so stupid that I'm like a suspect for wanting an exchange of information without dropping my pants and bending over. No, I don't want cookies. Yes I want to read the article but no, I don't want to "sign up."

It makes me feel like being a f*cking hermit. But I prefer to pirate. Even though I'm not that good at it. Screw them. I got two private trackers, a VPN, and I hope that's enough.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] iopq@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Then I don't believe it, Google makes about 200B in advertising revenue a year, serving about a quarter of the internet ads.

Advertising online is not even a trillion dollar market, how can just the data be bigger? Maybe if you count it being sold resold ten times

[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

I've finally run some actual numbers, after finding a source for the data brokerage industry value (much lower, $319 billion in 2021). The link to your instance's version is here: https://lemmy.world/post/10892972

TL;DR my conservative estimate is that every user is owed roughly $40 per year - but this doesn't include Google or other businesses who keep and exploit proprietary datasets, rather than selling the raw data.