> that does not mean that 5 minutes of your eyesight is now worth something

The advertisers paying to get their ads placed in front of those eyes disagree.

And ye, since another comment questions this, data or "eye-time are similar - they can be broken down to the individual.

The advertisers pay some price expecting a certain number of people to see the ad, and even if data about people is sold in bulk (too) there is a price per individual. It's a simple division to see the price they pay per person to view that cinema ad, or for one person's data, even if they always purchase those in bulk.

After all, they get to the bulk price by multiplying how much they are willing to pay for one individual with the expected (or in the case of data packages known) number of individuals.

You can literally use Chrome, Workspace, Drive, Android and Maps without seeing a single ad, without an ad blocker, without EVER using google search, for free.

Google Maps is full of local search ads and Workspaces isn't free.

Also Chrome exists primarily to ensure their ads business remains healthy i.e. they have massively watered down privacy restrictions.

Do you realise that as soon as you go to any of those websites, your details are scraped and sold? The second you put any data in drive or worksdpace, that is scraped into LLMs and sold?

Theres a reason that you have to log into a Google account to use those services, which means agreeing to their rather large TOS.

Buying something doesnt necessarily mean you have to pay money for it. Your time and information is worth something too.

> Do you realise that as soon as you go to any of those websites, your details are scraped and sold?

I've never heard of Google doing this. Google sells access to and the attention of their audience. They do not sell personal data.

I don’t think they realize just how large the google data collection operation is…

Uhmm.... I have to admit that I fail to see any connection whatsoever between your original comment that I replied to (included in the reply) and your reply...

Movie theater is an interesting analogy because they make zero money on ticket sales. Usually ticket revenue pays for the cost of the movie (theaters pay the studio for the movie). The way the theaters make money is on concessions, hence why they're crazy expensive.

That’s literally what that means…

You, the theater owner, are selling the time people are sitting in your theater in view of a large screen to advertisers. That time is literally worth something.

If there were no people in the theater, the advertisers wouldn’t pay for the time.

You just really don’t understand how advertising works.

You’re effectively saying something like “just because people would pay for something, doesn’t mean it has any value”

I have to believe that you’re an extremely skilled troll, because otherwise idk what’s going on in your head.

> that does not mean that 5 minutes of your eyesight is now worth something

It literally means exactly that, because you're deriving some real value (money) from 5 minutes of your eyesight. So therefore it has value.