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You decide what's shared, set a price, and refuse any buyer.
Property
Everything you do online produces something of value, and that value is already bought and sold every day. It moves through a real market, and it's priced and traded like any other asset. The strange thing about the market is that you produce the asset but you've never been in it. You own the thing being sold but you've never been the one selling it.
The catch
When your browsing data sells today, you're not in the room. A broker decides what it is worth, sells it to whoever pays, and keeps the money. The price could be fair or it could be nothing. But none of it runs through you. The market for your own browsing data has been open your whole digital life, and you're the only party who has never had a seat at the table.
The change
This is the part that sounds too good, so here's how it actually works. You collect your own browsing data. You see what's collected before any of it leaves your computer. You decide what's offered. You name your price, never below a floor that protects you, and if a buyer won't meet it, there's no sale. You can refuse any buyer, for any reason.
If "get paid for your data" sounds too good to be true, that's fair. Companies never ask, they just take. Here, nothing moves unless you offer it, at a price you set above the floor. No one hands you a number. Being paid a figure someone else chose and naming your own price aren't the same act, and the difference is the whole point.
The amount on any single sale can be small, around a cent for one browsing event in certain areas, but that was never the argument. The argument is that it's yours. A thing that's yours, sold for your benefit at a price you set, is categorically different from the same thing taken for free, even when the figures match. What you get here isn't a windfall, it's authorship.
The record
You state
They state
Consent is not assumed. It is recorded.
Nothing moves until both sides agree. You state what you will share and what you want for it. The organization states what it needs and what it will pay. Either side can speak first, and when the two meet, the contract exists. But neither side is contractually bound until both have agreed to the same terms. Only then does anything change hands.
Why you would agree
Because it's yours, the value is real, and the terms are finally something you wrote instead of something writing it for you.
Why they would agree
The organizations buying your browsing data aren't paying you as a favor. They're paying because the data they buy today is wrong a great deal of the time. Independent benchmarks put as much as half of all ad targeting data as inaccurate, because it's inferred by watching people instead of asking them. And a guess about what you want has a ceiling no model can lift. What you declare yourself has no such ceiling. When you state your own interests and agree to sell them, the buyer gets the one thing the rest of the market can't give them: an answer from you, not a guess about you. That's why the payment holds. It solves a problem they actually have.
Limitations
Data collection currently runs only on a desktop or laptop, and requires a Chromium browser: Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, or Arc. Phone capability is coming.
Selling requires a Stripe account, which Stripe offers only in a set list of countries. If you are outside the places Stripe supports, you cannot sell on PDD yet, because a payout account is part of every contract. Coverage expands as Stripe's does. You can check where Stripe is available here.
Your browsing data has been making money under your name, for other people, since the day you first went online. The only thing that changes here is who decides what happens to it next. That was always supposed to be you.