Google and Facebook in particular aren’t selling your data, they’re selling the service of showing ads to people who are likely to purchase those things.
The average website that has 800 close friends to share data with is trying to figure out who their target demographic is so they know which demographic to pay Google to advertise to… Or they’re also selling ad space.
So it’s targeted advertisements either way, just different angles
Targeted ads.
Google and Facebook in particular aren’t selling your data, they’re selling the service of showing ads to people who are likely to purchase those things.
The average website that has 800 close friends to share data with is trying to figure out who their target demographic is so they know which demographic to pay Google to advertise to… Or they’re also selling ad space.
So it’s targeted advertisements either way, just different angles