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Re:Reflecting on 18 Years at Google by Eisenstein on Thursday November 23, 2023 @09:35AM (#38393190)
Person 1: "They figured out how much they could make off you and it was more than what you would pay."

Person 2: "Well, they pissed me off so I left completely and now they make nothing off of me."

Person 1: "They already knew you would move so they figured out they would make nothing off of you in the long run!"

Person 2: "..."

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Re:Reflecting on 18 Years at Google by esafak on Thursday November 23, 2023 @01:41PM (#38395998)
My churn would appear as a loss in their lifetime value model, so it would be detected by a long-term experiment. And I am reasonably confident they are performing long-term experiments for such things.
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