Comment on Downdetector and Speedtest have been sold for over $1 billion

Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• homes@piefed.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah, this makes me immediately suspicious

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• x00z@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A company is valued by what somebody is willing to pay for it.

  So kind of, yes.

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• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Speedtest probably gets billions of visitors a month, thats a lot of IPs and browser data you can harvest and sell.

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