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Re:Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook by spaced-out on Friday October 15, 2021 @12:05PM (#28879294)
> Google and Facebook are the only companies that have access to data on basically every sale on the internet

Amazon? eBay? WeChat?

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Re:Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook by hardtke on Friday October 15, 2021 @12:24PM (#28879547)
Sites report their data back to Google analytics and Facebook by implementing their pixels. People don't do this for Amazon, ebay, wechat.
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Re:Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook by sanderjd on Friday October 15, 2021 @01:37PM (#28880522)
Amazon actually does have a quickly growing ads business FWIW.
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