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Re:Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent... by dmitriid on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @04:28PM (#20348418)
> So if I open a new small business and want to advertise it on AdWords or elsewhere on the internet I have no recourse

Ad tech was extremely profitable before personalisation and wholesale trading of private data.

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Re:Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent... by sfifs on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @05:56PM (#20349293)
> Ad tech was extremely profitable

That was the era when marketers were dumb, drank the internet look aid and were taken for a ride by the industry. That's not quite true anymore.

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Re:Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent... by dmitriid on Thursday July 04, 2019 @02:37PM (#20356789)
They will work just fine today, too
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