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Find the webpage where you can buy googles user data. Not where you can buy ad slots, but where you can buy the raw tracking data like data brokers sell.

I'll wait.

Try looking for something like "cia ads track" in your favorite search engine. The data comes with the ads, it's not a secret.

Wait no further: https://ads.google.com/intl/en/home/tools/insights-finder/

Heavily aggregated data. Nothing even close to personally identifying.

Still, it is _personal_ data collected and sold by Google, which was the point raised by gp comment. As for it being personally identifying, the aggregation/pseudonymization/anonymization process doesn't even prevent precise identification [0]. I'd say it's pretty close.

[0]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10933-3

The data is their golden goose. They only sell the eggs.

That is not "selling data".

That is exactly what I said. They sell targeted advertising.