• shneancy@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    it’s not about probability it’s that you just made it up.

    Valve has better, more probable sources of income, like for example, Steam?, they take a cut out of every sale of course they’re swimming in enough money to fund whatever project they desire.

    And I know that Google is willing to buy any data, but what for would it need PC specs? What marketable insight about a person does it provide? “ah this guy has a high end graphics card, he uh, well he could be a graphic artist but this is data from steam so he’s uh probably a gamer ig”

    I understand your instinct to doubt every company out there, it’s a good instinct, companies are not your friends after all, but man, at least try to make your claims against those companies plausible not just possible.

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      5 months ago

      Yeah my claim is that Valve used the data from their monthly survey and anything that was not willingly provided from users was bought from Google to R&D the Steam Deck. If that isn’t a probable or plausible scenario to you then you simply don’t understand why marketing data is useful.

      I never said anything about selling out to Google.