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Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by beat on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @03:35PM (#20689418)
It's not even malware/scams - it's just "Person who wants a mortgage calculator" is "person who is interested in getting a mortgage", which is some seriously high-value data. There's a lot more profit in selling you on to mortgage lenders (with a lot of data, like your budget, pre-filled) than selling you to scammers.
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Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by t0mas88 on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @04:21PM (#20689818)
And surprise surprise... That's what DoubleClick (= Google) does, they'll sell your cookie ID as "interested in mortgage" audience to advertisers.

While in the interest of "privacy" Google limits the amount of data the banks and others you interact with get from any competing solution, they will sell all of it in Ads Data Hub which is a Google Cloud product. So not so much in the interest of privacy but much more in the interest of Google selling more cloud products.

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