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[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 1 points 9 hours ago

Google, Apple, etc selling the data is actually unlikely. They don't want other advertisers data to be as competitive as their own.

The smaller players though, get more profit selling data because they'll never compete with the giants on the targeted ads front.