Worse than Elon Musk?!
Yes, TODAY Larry Ellison just become the richest man in the world,
He even passed Musk briefly.. but, how'd Oracle get so wealthy?
It's because they are among the biggest players in the cross-device, cross-service, data sale game, now getting AI using their databases & services on top of the regular web apps that shill your sensitive life's data.
New mainstream news coverage:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/10/larry-ellison-dislodges-elon-musk-as-worlds-richest-person
My previous coverage on cross-service data sales as this relates directly to your privacy, with dank memes,
https://simplifiedprivacy.com/fast-overview/how-it-works.html
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I believe they have actually divested from all consumer data and ad targeting operations?
"Richest man", Putin and Xi laugh
not in the slightest, they paid the fines from the court cases as a slap on the wrist. their browser fingerprinting stuff is still going on, and i look at the tech docs from it
They shut down oracle data solutions mid last year. They also sold a massive chunk of it the different streams to a bunch of different vendors.