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Re:Meta Reports First Quarter 2024 Results by gu746 on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @08:28PM (#40151700)
There is a book called Sub Prime Attention Crisis which claims all these metrics are bogus. Written by an Ex Googler.

Total available attention is finite. Yet content keeps exploding. There is only one conclusion.

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Re:Meta Reports First Quarter 2024 Results by epolanski on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @08:34PM (#40151743)
Interesting, but then, how can it fool advertisers?
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Re:Meta Reports First Quarter 2024 Results by hi-v-rocknroll on Thursday April 25, 2024 @02:33AM (#40154173)
The GP comment sounds like a conspiracy theory because advertisers really care about getting their money's worth for actual, genuine impressions and click-throughs. Otherwise, it would be massive fraud.
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