Hey, I barely know the SkateHive community but highly respect the community, I swear to you everyone on Hive knows you guys because of how active you guys are in a very good way! Keep rocking and rolling, even without not knowing much I heard enough about your porjects to respect a lot. At a Hive event we had in Spain many weeks you guys were mentioned a few times because the members are active and creative with creating websites and having brand new ideas.

we do none of that

Well, everything on Hive is public in a way that not even Facebook dares to. It is just that we do not monetize it, but it is very easy for anyone to just scrape data off of Hive and know about your interests and target ads to you outside of Hive. Hive does the dirty job of creating and collecting and preserving data, outsiders benefit from the data neatly stored about us.