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Re:Briar Project by ipsum2 on Monday August 03, 2020 @01:59AM (#24034624)
Idk if you consider Twitter a big tech company, but they do: https://developer.twitter.com/en/pricing. I don't believe Google or FB does though.
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Re:Briar Project by spullara on Monday August 03, 2020 @02:42AM (#24034800)
That isn't selling user data. All that is on the site itself, they are just making it easier to access. I'm talking about their click streams and other things that are invisible to the public. That data no one sells because it is how they target their ads.
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Re:Briar Project by ipsum2 on Monday August 03, 2020 @05:11AM (#24035570)
Twitter is literally selling data (tweets) that users generate via API.
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Re:Briar Project by spullara on Monday August 03, 2020 @12:22PM (#24039717)
The data is public and available to everyone. They are selling an API to it.
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