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Re:Google Search Is Dying by jamiek88 on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @07:41PM (#30354985)
Not if you hate it and want to return it. In fact there’s a calculation to be made - what percentage of people return or dislike their drill? Because that subset of the population is probably more likely to be looking to buy one than any other.

A return rate of say 1% may lead to more people looking to buy a drill who have just bought one in the last week than people looking to buy their first drill.

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Re:Google Search Is Dying by gwd on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @06:13AM (#30358576)
> In fact there’s a calculation to be made - what percentage of people return or dislike their drill?

If that's true, they left something out of their calculation: What percentage of people will install an adblocker as a result of feeling like they're being hounded for a few weeks? This scenario was mentioned specifically by Tim Cook when he introduced the Safari anti-tracking features.

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