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A comment on Monsanto’s ghostwriting to influence science and media. Parent comment

Re:Monsanto’s ghostwriting to influence science and media by makeitdouble on Sunday May 08, 2022 @11:00PM (#31310057)
Google is exactly villainized because of the many billions of dollars of free services they provide and use as a source of the data they funnel to the advertisers, while killing competition as a second order effect.

Philanthropy should be done by entities dedicated to it and ethically responsible, not as a camouflage for private data brokering.

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Re:Monsanto’s ghostwriting to influence science and media by pronlover723 on Sunday May 08, 2022 @11:40PM (#31310340)
Do you have some links of Google funneling data to advertisers?
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Re:Monsanto’s ghostwriting to influence science and media by makeitdouble on Monday May 09, 2022 @12:08AM (#31310517)
I assume you are making a fine distinction between straight handing down user identifying private information, and providing special access to targeted users that will only hit the advertiser in full as they hit the ad.

Technically and legally both are different, but I still see both as funnelling data to advertisers.

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Re:Monsanto’s ghostwriting to influence science and media by geotus on Monday May 09, 2022 @12:11AM (#31310534)
Excuse me, but one of those things is actually providing data to advertisers, and one of them clearly, legally, and functionally is _not._ You don’t get your own set of facts just because you irrationally hate Google.
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