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by tpaschalis 2744 days ago
This exactly. Companies exist to make money, and that's of course a good thing. But the way that some tech companies choose to go about that (growth at all costs, maximizing attention by clickbait, and ultimately selling whitespace for advertisments) may not be the best long-term way to do things.

It's like the real-world option between choosing to publish your own little newspaper versus writing a small column in someone's else newspaper, where you have no control over.

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> and that's of course a good thing.

[Citation needed]