You think that realtime ad impressions is all they get from you reading granular...

joshuamorton · on July 28, 2020

> So you're reaching for second or third order effects at best.

I'm curious what second or third order effects you think a usenet archive had on GG.

mtkd · on July 28, 2020

From G side they gained users interacting with 50K+ topics and occasionally posting views, sentiment etc. (and likely all Deja News historic interactions)

In addition to the search history, email content, geo location etc. G have for many people

happycube · on July 28, 2020

Deja did a fairly good job at destroying itself beforehand - not just financially.