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Re:How Facebook's Instagram Acquisition Led to the Open Sour... by collectively on Saturday November 18, 2017 @07:53PM (#15731622)
I mean, software companies will spin ads any way they can to get engineers interested. That’s their prerogative. It doesn’t mean any of it is true—the world is 100% worse off due to ads, and no amount of smooth scrolling animations is going to change that.
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Re:How Facebook's Instagram Acquisition Led to the Open Sour... by golergka on Saturday November 18, 2017 @09:33PM (#15731929)
> the world is 100% worse off due to ads

Do you have the source for that? Personally, most of the modern targeted ads I notice are a net gain for my life. Do you have a different experience?

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