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Reddit abandons user privacy - Ars Technica
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This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
The simplest explanation is generally the right one. Online advertising is a scam. They manipulate the numbers to create the illusion of value. Scammers scamming scammers. Liars and thieves all the way down.
Sounds perfectly capitalist and job creating.