An interesting deep-dive into how Google profiles and values different users.
It highlights that even though the service is “free”, the sheer value each user holds to Google from their data and ad-revenue. And with that, the impact you can have by leaving them.
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I don’t even have that amount of money to spend, you can argue if it’s truly zero or not but I don’t remember buying anything on an advert so far. Sometimes seen adverts for things I already bought and have no intention to buy again as I already have it.
You don’t have to buy directly from the advert for it to be beneficial to the advertiser.
But I don’t even buy their products at all
I think @Balex@lemmy.world means that all Google cares about is the ads getting served to you.
The money to pay for that must come from somewhere though. There is no way at all that anyone could be getting even remotely close to that value out of me.
Yeah, it’s the giant advertisers paying Google to show their ads in front of you, whether you actually buy anything from them or not. Hundreds of companies chip in and Google sums that total.