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		csande17 on May 23, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Keep the web free, say no to Web3 (2021) If you don't think you pay for Hacker News with your data, try deleting an old comment.

krapp on May 23, 2022 | [–]

How does that "pay" for anything? Who is that data being sold do? How is it being used to target advertising to me?

deepstack on May 23, 2022 | [–]

try search in HN, algolia is mining the data of HN for sure.

mccorrinall on May 23, 2022 | [–]

Mining for what?

I bet they couldn't care less and haven't ever touched the data since the implementation.

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