Tech companies know everything about me – so why do they try to sell me so much rubbish? | Joel Snape

The Guardian Business · Published 8h ago

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Tech companies know everything about me – so why do they try to sell me so much rubbish? | Joel Snape

No, Amazon, I do not want to buy another version of the thing I just bought, or any other random object I don’t recognise or understand We live, as I’m sure someone’s chief growth officer has recently boasted on an earnings call, in a golden age for data capture. Jeff Bezos knows what I buy, read an

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