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Reading (rather, skimming) this sort of analysis makes me wish that advertising had its own internet -- an anti-matter, separate universe sort of place. Depressing to see technology as a pack horse for advertising.

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An internet without Google and apps, Bing, Youtube, Facebook and Instagram, Snapchat, almost all big content publishers, Tumblr (as of recently), Twitter... what would be left?

of my usage: Apple-owned apps, Spotify (premium only), Vimeo, SoundCloud, WhatsApp, Dropbox, Trello, Reddit.

So at its core (a rather large core), the internet is advertising -- curated, paid spam? Granted, some of it is actually helpful in providing a pointer to a product I didn't know about, but it's interesting how all of these companies are proxies for a salesman.

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