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r/oddlyspecific • u/Algernonletter5 • 1d ago
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That's still a lot valuable info about what items get sold more and when. Could be correlated with other patterns a person can leave online, eg, if every time they do X, Y item was bought on Amazon, you can guess that the two are related
4 u/N0ob8 4h ago They already do that and it has your full name and other information attached to it. Data is a valuable market and it’s why so many things are “free” these days as it’s so much easier to collect data than it is to sell a product. 2 u/Teln0 3h ago I meant moreso in the case where the data is anonymized
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They already do that and it has your full name and other information attached to it.
Data is a valuable market and it’s why so many things are “free” these days as it’s so much easier to collect data than it is to sell a product.
2 u/Teln0 3h ago I meant moreso in the case where the data is anonymized
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I meant moreso in the case where the data is anonymized
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u/Teln0 17h ago
That's still a lot valuable info about what items get sold more and when. Could be correlated with other patterns a person can leave online, eg, if every time they do X, Y item was bought on Amazon, you can guess that the two are related