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Re:Facebook almost acquired Waze, but we ended up with Google by tracerbulletx on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @06:53PM (#36425818)
It's literally the only thing that matters to the question of whether or not it's an ad. Imagine telling your grandma 30 years ago you don't appreciate her advertising to you because she used a business as a navigational reference giving directions to her house. Absurd.
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Re:Facebook almost acquired Waze, but we ended up with Google by JohnFen on Thursday June 22, 2023 @11:12AM (#36433374)
Eh, to each his own. My grandma is not Google. Google has earned a high degree of suspicion and mistrust. My grandma has not.

Besides, she wouldn't have done that. She would have been more likely to give me directions in a way that is more useful to me than that, because she knows me.

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