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Re:San Francisco Bubble by wheaties on Friday January 29, 2016 @12:40PM (#10996831)
Advertising is a necessary part of selling a product. Selling a product is a necessary part of being profitable. Why hate on that? Way better than waste-my-time Farmville or an enhanced "like" button. Adtech actually helps commerce.
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Re:San Francisco Bubble by macavity23 on Friday January 29, 2016 @12:59PM (#10997017)
Many products succeed with zero advertising.
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Re:San Francisco Bubble by ojr on Friday January 29, 2016 @02:19PM (#10997737)
Facebook stock value is doing well and it is because many products are using it to advertise
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Re:San Francisco Bubble by shostack on Friday January 29, 2016 @02:25PM (#10997801)
And they are by far the exception and not the rule.

Too many fall into the "Field of Dreams" fallacy thinking that if you build it, they will come. Most of the time it doesn't work like that.

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