Infutor is also repackaging existing capabilities, launching Total Consumer Insights, a “third party dataset that provides privacy-compliant behavioral and household attributes on 266 million US consumers across 120 million households.”  It brings together data and predictive modeling products that were previously separate.

Finally, this massive global consumer study from Cheetah Digital offers a ton of interesting data about attitudes towards privacy, social media, loyalty, personalization and more.  One finding to remember: consumers consider location data more sensitive than anything else, something also seen in other recent surveys.

Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.