Yeah, because everyone is asking for that. They will force ads into everything they can, because Google is an Ad company.

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    Agreed. Although even if you’re blocking the loading of ads, they’re still capturing and selling behavioral data. Also, I have remotes that advertise video services that don’t even exist anymore.

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      I don’t know about Roku but Google doesn’t sell data, just ads. You can’t go to Google and buy data about users.

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        They “sell” it in the sense that, as a marketer, you buy the ability to target behavioral and demographic cohort of users. You’re not actually buying a database of names and numbers.

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          Right, so the “sell” it in the sense that they don’t sell it. I get the same response every time. I don’t understand why people think it’s ok to just lie, and then when they’re called out try to argue that lying is fine you said something that feels true.