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This is such utter bullshit. Markets are being programmatically gamed, and seriously bright young minds are still flocking to the Vampire Squid's embrace, hoping for a chance to help them do that in exchange for a slice of that phat, fraudulent loot.

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it's not any worse than using javascript to further the ad industry

Well yes, both are bad, of course.

The ad industry's efforts have led to online privacy being all but non-existent, but Wall Street has turned our economies into shit and saddled the world with massive amounts of debt that will never be repaid.

But you can consider the ad industry far more "innocent" than Wall Street. The latter has known exactly what it's doing and causing all along.

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