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Re:An app that lets you pretend to receive a call when a co-... by coldtea on Monday March 06, 2017 @03:06AM (#13801374)
And your point is? Advertisements can still be useful to discuss. And commercial products and services are featured on HN all the time.

Plus, it's not like HN is anti-commercial either.

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Re:An app that lets you pretend to receive a call when a co-... by bigbugbag on Monday March 06, 2017 @03:11AM (#13801395)
This is a blatant advertisement for a way to collect phone numbers. I'm not sure breaching privacy and social engineering scheme are welcome or else HN would be filled with malwares and the likes.
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Re:An app that lets you pretend to receive a call when a co-... by coldtea on Monday March 06, 2017 @05:36AM (#13801821)
>This is a blatant advertisement for a way to collect phone numbers.

Not anymore than any other service that to work asks for phone numbers or email addresses.

You might not appreciate or have a use for the service, which is tongue in cheek, but that doesn't make it "malware" or "social engineering".

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Re:An app that lets you pretend to receive a call when a co-... by tyre on Monday March 06, 2017 @03:24AM (#13801450)
This isn't an advertisement, it is a marketing program. they aren't advertising Breather itself, just a side-project.

As for HN and marketing programs, you may notice that Hacker News is run by Y Combinator. YC has a considerable interest in owning the news platform for startups and engineers. This is not a coincidence.

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