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Money is money, and if the cost of making a million dollars is $250K and incinerating a town's entire historical record, apparently that's a fine price for some people.

Throw this on the heap of systemic ethical transgressions of the advertising industry, along with list selling, poor targeting practices, ...



It's grotesque that this is not even the direct effect of the advertising industry, it is the side effect of Google's algo to sort results.

Being ranked higher in the Goog results is sadly worth more than a town's historical records.

I wonder if things were different if Google wasn't allowed to monopolize search.


We face dozens of material problems that could be solved if the advertising industry had even a sprinkle of shame. Imagine the world we'd live in if list buying and backlink buying were taboo.




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