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I wonder, by percentage, how much of these profits are owed to click farmers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_farm

Apple devices claim to be "luxury" -- something I find hilarious, but the marketers certainly believe. It makes the clicks from an Apple device more valuable than a click from an Android device. Therefore, there's just going to be more sales to click farm companies. And they buy in bulk: https://www.equedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/clickfarm...

The entire mobile phone ecosystem is a hilarious ouroboros of marketing nonesense in the end. I would be laughing if the environmental and human costs weren't so extreme.



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