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Ask HN: What are the economics of data brokers?

7 pointsby paulette449over 1 year ago
I clicked a link to a news story on Africa News [0] and was shocked to see a pop-up telling me that they&#x27;d like to share my data with 797 &quot;partners&quot;. That&#x27;s a huge number to my eyes. Can any &quot;insiders&quot; share the economics of so many data brokers on a single site? Do they pay the site owners for the data? What about buying&#x2F;selling&#x2F;coordinating that data to one another? Who are the largest customers of the data brokers&#x27; &quot;services&quot;?<p>[0] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.africanews.com&#x2F;

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EarthAmbassadorover 1 year ago
It is interesting that no one responded. These falls under AdTech and AdOps. There are some people here who can provide insight. I&#x27;m not one of them, but I would like to know more too, and would love to see a primer.
joshxyzover 1 year ago
read about fb cabridge analytica scandal on wikipedia. similar to that.