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Re:SoftBank’s $375M bet on pizza went bad fast by dkdk8283 on Saturday February 15, 2020 @06:02PM (#22338643)
I was in the business pre-tube. I learned a lot too.

It’s probably very different now but affiliate shaving, spamming, cpc fraud were all ubiquitous in the late 90s/early 2000s.

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Re:SoftBank’s $375M bet on pizza went bad fast by latchkey on Saturday February 15, 2020 @06:31PM (#22338788)
May 2006 - April 2010

Yes, we had to deal with all of that as well. Also built a lot of automated tools to deal with those sorts of things. My favorite one, I named 'the cockblocker'. ;-) This sort of experience you just can't get elsewhere and has been extremely valuable for me.

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