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It’s not often that you come across an article that seems designed purely to engender schadenfreude, but this fits the bill nicely.

In a slightly more serious tone, the interviewee pulls out the old “won’t someone think of the small businesses?” line at the end. Is there any evidence that this is true? Is is primarily small businesses that are hurt with this kind of instability?

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if there's one sub-sector of tech that is more than willing to take data and massage it until it fits a particular narrative, it's advertising.

I'd argue advertising isn't a sub-sector of tech; rather it's a sub-sector of phycology and persuasion.

Marketing / advertising is a sub-sector of exploitation.

All of the above, of course.

Modern advertising is technology deployed for the purpose of exploiting psychology to effect persuasion.

Marketing is not the same thing as advertising, but it can frequently be described identically.

Yes because small businesses get the tests first in a lot of cases

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