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ITT: People attacking ads while likely working for the most pernicious advertising companies in history.

If you really think Google or Facebook or Twitter et al's missions are to connect people or organize information you are deluded. Their missions are to be the most effective marketers ever.

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I posit that the overwhelming majority of HN'ers do not work for FAANG (though a fairly large chunk may well aspire to).

Edit: in fairness, that would exclude Twitter. What I'm really getting at is that, for all the companies that get a _ton_ of chatter on here, tech is a lot larger than just BigCo's, and I'd expect the overall population here to reflect that.

that's true of every business: they need to make money.

they _could_ try to make money in some way that is more productive to society than spreading mind-viruses

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