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Re:Google wants to make you feel like you're on a crowded tr... by nkrisc on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:27PM (#20721574)
If the ad industry was applying this kind of emotional and psychological manipulation in order to, I dunno, coerce people into having more sex with them, most people would agree it's evil. But it's OK to manipulate people in the same way if it's just to make them buy your shit?

Bunch of psychopaths.

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Re:Google wants to make you feel like you're on a crowded tr... by perl4ever on Friday August 16, 2019 @11:42PM (#20721859)
If this is Veritas, I've been led to believe that epithet is an accurate description of them.
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