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Re:Tim Berners-Lee just gave us an opening to stop DRM in We... by dahdum on Friday October 07, 2016 @01:22PM (#12662319)
That might drive short term revenue but would drive down their CPM/CPC rates and user engagement longer term. I don't think Google's culture is conducive to playing those sorts of tricks.
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Re:Tim Berners-Lee just gave us an opening to stop DRM in We... by nitrogen on Friday October 07, 2016 @03:24PM (#12663291)
Maybe they don't do it on purpose, maybe they A/B test their way into a black hole of emergent anti-patterns.
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