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> I really expected them to sell it to telemarketers. reply

I doubt they'd sell it to telemarketers, but they'll use it for every dark pattern under the sun to increase your engagement. Frankly, your engagement is much more profitable to them than a one-time sale of an email list.




They're not mutually exclusive.


Yes, because having exclusive access to that breadth of data makes it valuable. Once they share all their data it's not worth much anymore.




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