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It's funny because the share price isn't reflecting these trends.

As privacy laws become more strict, which seems inevitable given what's happening all across Europe, the data itself loses it's value. If the data loses it's value, having more of it, won't translate to having more value.

Facebook/Google will just have more stuff they can't use, or more stuff they'll need to try and stretch further than they did before.



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