• 🔰Hurling⚜️Durling🔱@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Social media platforms may not make money in the traditional sense of sales or monthly purchases, but they harvest users data and that on itself is worth a bunch of money, not to mention having the ability to continually harvest more data.

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      4 months ago

      Selling that data is part of the not making profit. Aka they would need to get much more money for the data or sell a lot more. Advertisements are where most of it come from for most companies