The only reason it's valuable is because of it's utility to extract value from you. Not just money either but for instance the power to manipulate.
It's not a scientific discovery.
It's not a scientific discovery.
THIS data has no value to the people collecting it except for the power it gives them to predict and/or manipulate you.
That seems unlikely, since I don’t see how many of them could be profitable if they were paying Google more than their own revenue.
Those numbers don’t make any sense. Alphabet had 403 billion in revenue in 2025. The UK’s population is around 69,000,000. This amounts to $5,840.57 per person, which is nowhere near a lifetime of retirement savings.