I'm impressed at how obvious of a lie this is and how hard they're trying to do mental gymnastics to justify their argument.
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Essentially they claim they don’t sell data. They say instead they process it in house and just have advertisers indicate a certain desired profile and then yhey show the ads, without transferring info
Because everybody's totally going to believe that. LOL.
Selling it would be bad business. By just offering ad targeting to their customers, the customers keep coming back. Once they sell it the customer doesn't need them anymore. (used to work in an advertising-based internet business. This is how it's done.)
If that's true, sure. Then they'd not be selling data but profiting off it.