Where/how can I buy all data for, let's say a dozen users, that facebook collects?
No wonder public is completely misinformed about how ad revenue based companies operate when even on HN blatant lies are highly upvoted.
To claim that Facebook isn't selling my data is a semantic distinction without a difference at best, and just downright dishonest at worst.
This, which started the discussion, is just downright false. Who does Facebook sell my private photo albums to for instance? How could I buy someone’s photos?
What is being sold is access to incredibly in-depth pictures of users' private lives collected via the surveillance of the near totality of their online lives, to include even websites they visit off-platform. This access is sold to anyone who wishes to weaponize this deeply intimate picture of a user's private life (a picture only developed due to an unconscionable level of surveillance) to unduly influence them to believe or behave in ways they otherwise wouldn't.
Google does this too. Any brand that relies on advertising instead of sales of its actual hardware is in this game.