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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's a big subject, but generally:

  • We have a library or SDK that developers put in their app/webpage (lots of apps are webpages)
  • When you launch the app, we figure out who you are and what you're doing
  • We send it back to our servers, do data analysis, and use it for advertising/sell it

If we only have a little bit of data it's pretty useless, but if we know your location/job/salary it starts to become very valuable