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Re: Why do the big marketing organizations offer free cloud storage anyway?

From "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.system, alt.os.linux, alt.comp.freeware, alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject Re: Why do the big marketing organizations offer free cloud storage anyway?
Date 2019-07-19 20:27 -0500
Organization Inner-Dementia-Null Consortium Of Wizardly Dudes
Message-ID <20190719202733.7e8bbfe4@WizardsTower> (permalink)
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On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 23:57:52 -0000 (UTC)
"Arlen G. Holder" <arlingholder@nospam.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 20:40:55 -0000 (UTC), William Unruh wrote:
> 
> >> Yes, they get your data - but how do they BENEFIT from getting
> >> it?  
> > 
> > They sell it to whomever. Advertisers kwho want to know all about
> > you. Political parties who want to tailor their lies to your
> > prejudices. Governments who want to know what you think and do.  
> 
> Is that really true William Unruh that they "sell your data"?
> 
> I think, as I recall, you're a professor of physics, as I recall, but
> I might be wrong.
> 
> If you are, that means you can certainly follow complex equations.
> Each term in a complex equation has specific meaning - which is
> important.
> 
> When you say they "sell your data", do you mean 'data' or 'meta data'?
> 
> The reason I ask is that they're quite different where, I don't think
> they actually sell your data outright (except under subpoena), do
> they?
> 
> > > Who are "they" anyway?  
> > YOu were the one that asked.   
> 
> I don't put ANY of my data on the cloud if I can help it.
> So I'm asking about the OTHERS who DO put their data on the cloud -
> which ones they use.

I assume that you know that what you said there was not in the least
akin to the question you originally asked.

In Message-ID: <qgqa3p$db1$1@news.mixmin.net> you asked:
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"Q: Why do the big marketing organizations offer free cloud storage
anyway?"
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Shift goalposts much?  What do you /REALLY/ want to know?

-- 
Cybe R. Wizard

Beliefs are the diluting ice cubes in the chilled chardonnay of
experience.
 	Zorg

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  Re: Why do the big marketing organizations offer free cloud storage anyway? Ken Hart <kwhart1@frontier.com> - 2019-07-18 15:32 -0400
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  Re: Why do the big marketing organizations offer free cloud storage anyway? "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2019-07-18 20:41 -0500
    Re: Why do the big marketing organizations offer free cloud storage anyway? "Arlen G. Holder" <arlingholder@nospam.net> - 2019-07-19 18:54 +0000
      Re: Why do the big marketing organizations offer free cloud storage anyway? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2019-07-19 20:40 +0000
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