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Brian_K_Whitetoday at 11:29 AM1 replyview on HN

The only reason it's valuable is because of it's utility to extract value from you. Not just money either but for instance the power to manipulate.

It's not a scientific discovery.


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hedoratoday at 1:38 PM

In the UK, google extracts one average lifetime retirement savings per person in revenue, on average. You could argue that Google’s customers, like advertisers, propaganda firms, etc, all overpay for the data.

That seems unlikely, since I don’t see how many of them could be profitable if they were paying Google more than their own revenue.

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