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Sad to see all of this engineering effort being spent on spreading cancer (aka ads) and thus funding worldwide stalking by unethical companies.

Just imagine what humanity could’ve achieved if efforts like these were directed to actually worthwhile causes like science or medical research.

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I used to think like this before. But then I realized the survival of these companies (similar to natural selection) is based on these efforts which makes it almost the exact opposite of cancer.

To a customer, if the value add is ride sharing to exist in some form, companies actively bidding for that customer's attention and eventually their pockets is inevitable.

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