Never seen one to address the amount of externals they send your data to. Could be a EU thing?

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    Highest one I’ve seen was around 1700.

    they’re all dragnets – scraping everything it can get like a black hole

    back in the late augts the data broker i worked for only used a tiny fraction out of all the scraped data because they didn’t want to spend all the money of data engineer salaries. i bet AI has ramped it into unthinkable overdrive.