User Data Monetization

The cluster focuses on discussions about companies collecting, selling, or profiting from user data as a primary business model, including skepticism about privacy promises and suggestions that users should be paid for their data.

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Sample Comments

debacle Jun 18, 2012 View on HN

From the sounds of it, they want to monetize their data.

waldoh Jun 22, 2020 View on HN

Wont that 100 dollars of data be worth exponentially more if companies had to pay us for collecting it?

markus_zhang Feb 28, 2025 View on HN

It's a lot easier to sell user data than to ask users for money.

latj Jan 30, 2014 View on HN

There are probably more profitable ways to use that data against users rather than for them.

mathattack May 9, 2018 View on HN

It’s ads and shaking down companies to subscribe. Their data is likely to be very valuable.

rapnie Jul 10, 2020 View on HN

Idk, but assume they could also make a good buck from selling the data they collect?

speedgoose Jun 24, 2022 View on HN

No, it’s too valuable. They sell services using the data such as Google ads.

amelius Jan 10, 2018 View on HN

You could be right but the businessmodel of most of these companies is that you pay with your data.

nrki Nov 21, 2018 View on HN

How can they make money off your data if they don't have it?They just want data. They no longer want to make people's lives easier.

arminiusreturns Jan 28, 2021 View on HN

Datamining the users and then selling the data. Also probably have some governments paying them to spy on certain users.