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I just can't get worked up over this. Advertising is at best amoral, and inherently a shady activity. I've always assumed that advertising is a cut throat industry full of sharks. This doesn't really come as a surprise that google, the king of advertising, would partake in cutthroat activities in a cutthroat industry full of sharks to dominate and extract maximum value. So they acted like sociopaths among a society of sociopaths, so what.

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It's silly but the only reason I can't get worked up over this is because it was presented in a Twitter thread. I just can't take anything presented in batches of x characters seriously.

In a world where R&D is now often dwarfed by ad spend it is really a threat to progress.

So what? Humans also spend almost 400 billion a year on cosmetics. Progress is being made anyway. Obviously the ad spend brings some value to those companies.

Don't worry, USA will continue investing orders of magnitude more money into R&D for killing people so progress won't stop.

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