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Comment by mbirth | Hacker News Reader

> The whole industry runs on scams like this

Wasn’t there an article here a few days ago about Facebook specialising in hiding such malicious ads from testers and law enforcement to maximise gains?

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Yep: https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-created-playbook...

And here's the HN discussion about it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46446838

Yes. Basically the internet version of the Volkswagen emissions scandal.

  if(testdetected == 1)
  ecm.lowemissions
  else
  lmao.fuckyouregulators

the difference is that the average rube and/or average lawmaker have some basic understanding of how cars work.

petrol goes in, toxic gas comes out, so make toxic gas less.

most of them have 0% understanding as to how data mining works or how online ads (and scams) function

It was about advertising for scams, not tracking. That's easier to understand than a car.

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