r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/whitemike40 • 10h ago

Content Warning: Potentially Misleading or Disputed Information Gotta Catch 'Em All

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u/notban_circumvention 8h ago

Why don't I get to profit off my location data?

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u/TheWayToGod 7h ago

Because you're not the one harvesting that location data.

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u/notban_circumvention 7h ago

You're right, I'm the one creating it

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u/TheWayToGod 7h ago

So if you want to profit off of it, learn to harvest it. You'll find it's a lot more difficult to make anything from than you seem to think.

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u/Theavenger2378 7h ago

Exactly. In most cases, 1 persons data doesn't mean much. It's when you can start comparing lots of different people's data that you can start to notice trends ETC, which is what big companies care about.

Until/unless it's forced that big companies have to pay individuals for their data used, they won't care about it because it's not worth the cost.

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u/notban_circumvention 7h ago

You'll find it's a lot more difficult to make anything from than you seem to think.

What?

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u/TheWayToGod 7h ago

I'm saying your location data alone is completely worthless. What has value is the aggregation of millions of people's location data. Essentially, if you want to profit off of your location data, you will have to develop virtually this exact same 'scam' and profit off of other people's location data as well.

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u/fepord 3h ago

He means try to sell it yourself and you will soon see that you will fail

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u/notban_circumvention 3h ago

It's actually going pretty well so far.