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qeternity
on March 31, 2017
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Comcast says it will not sell customer browsing hi...
This. Why sell the raw materials when you can sell the finished product? That's where the value add is.
YCode
on March 31, 2017
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What prevents them from doing both?
qeternity
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Economics. The have a monopoly on this data. If they sell the raw data, they are necessarily equipping a competitor. Or they can sell the high level insights that will presumably have a larger profit margin.
YCode
on April 1, 2017
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What are they doing with the data that requires explicit access?
zamalek
on April 1, 2017
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Targeted advertising. One of them (I forget which) was MITM adverts into pages.
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