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elamje ◴[31 Mar 25 21:12 UTC] No.43540034[source]▶

Have a friend high up at one of the “Big 3” in this space.

The entire business model is predicated on injecting themselves as the last click for attribution even when they weren’t remotely responsible for the conversion. Cool business, but can’t keep going on forever without someone catching on.

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echelon ◴[31 Mar 25 23:29 UTC] No.43541153[source]▶

>>43540034 #

> Cool business

Shameful parasitism. The engineers working on this garbage knew what they were doing. I'd question the ethics of anyone who worked on this.

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1. kome ◴[01 Apr 25 10:01 UTC] No.43544912[source]▶

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i think you are missing the irony.

but you are also missing the fact that the great part of the industry works in the same way: using open source stuff, in a super parasitic way, to track and control millions of users.

the average googler here is not better here.

p.s.: great nickname btw. and on point.

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