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		earenndil on Sept 28, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell i... Source? That doesn't right at all. Even google doesn't sell your data directly, just ads; they do in-house analysis of the data.

gcb0 on Sept 29, 2018 [–]

All those companies sell the "anonymized data" to everyone. for example "ad X shown to user Y targeted on Z at time T"

And if you happen know user Y matches user earenndil in a data set you control, now you know user earenndil belongs to demographic Z.

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