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[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Who could have possibly have forseen that a company that makes nearly all of its revenue from data mining and advertising would one day use a popular software tool as a means of data mining and advertising. This is like wheels-within-wherls thinking right here.