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Re:The Amazon Tax by SamBam on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @10:36PM (#49355922)
Do they even have any idea that their ads are showing up for the specific competing doctor? Isn't Google the one deciding where the ads are most valuable?
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Re:The Amazon Tax by antonvs on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @07:10AM (#49359915)
If they don’t know, showing up and telling them will let them know.

If you excuse the effects that people’s actions have because they didn’t realize they were causing them, you guarantee that those effects will never stop.

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Re:The Amazon Tax by voakbasda on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @10:59AM (#49362535)
Yup. If every person that got misdirected by an ad went into the offenders business and raised hell, they would probably decide that it wasn’t worth it.
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