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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wait, are those people so fucked in the head they genuinely tricked themselves into thinking users... Like ads?

[–] self@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago

I swear every VP of Marketing at ShitCorp on mastodon shows up with that exact take in every adblocker thread. some of them follow it up with “…and the modern web wouldn’t exist without ads”, which is how you know they’re on the expensive drugs — these marketing geniuses haven’t noticed the fediverse’s got a pretty fucking dim view of the modern web as a whole