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		gigel82 on Jan 18, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Escaping surveillance capitalism, at scale Data brokers rarely collect from ad companies. They buy in bulk from the states who are all too happy to sell them driver licensing data, plus property records and other public sources.

autoexec on Jan 19, 2024 [–]

They get data from anywhere and everywhere they can. They also get ad data from your internet history which most ISPs are happy to sell to them.

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