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Re:Facebook Research Warned of ‘Tipping Point’ Threat to Cor... by spc476 on Thursday July 25, 2019 @01:45PM (#20527593)
Back in the late 80s and 90s, there was the magazine Computer Shopper that was easily 90%+ advertising. It was incredibly popular.
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Re:Facebook Research Warned of ‘Tipping Point’ Threat to Cor... by dsr_ on Thursday July 25, 2019 @04:03PM (#20529007)
That was because it was the only way people could buy computers that weren't pre-selected by Compaq, Dell or IBM. It was a 100% paid-placement catalog.

Pretty quickly I figured out that articles by Steven J Vaughan-Nichols were worth reading and the rest were generally not. But the ads were what we were looking for.

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