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"Growth hacking" is nothing but marketers rebranding themselves because word "hacking" is hot and cool (i.e. meaningless).

> What happened to the good old days when "growth hacking" was building a good product that people want to share with each other and then making it easy for them to share?

Business came in. The Internet became serious money, and with it came the "entrepreneurs". What you see is what happens everywhere where competition is intense enough - ethics are one of the first thing to fly out of the window. They harm the bottom line.