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If Casey Winters did the "growth hacking" at Pinterest he is responsible for polluting search results with useless, paywalled Pinterest spam.

Pinterest is like ExpertSexChange dark pattern strategy taken to the max.

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That Pinterest google spam paywall is equivalent to follow/unfollow bots on instagram. While it is effective at gaining followers/signups, it's not bringing value added people. Of course if your metric for success is hockey stick user growth, then sure. I suspect if Pinterest did some user account house cleaning, you'd see millions of trash accounts go with it.

Yeah for years I've found myself having to "-pinterest" out of searches. I wish that it was just removed period.

And this is how I know google does not give a shite about the people who actually use their search engine as a search engine.

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