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> to show you ad-supported floating product descriptions in-place as you shop

Just so we're on the same page... you do think this is a bad thing, right?




Bad in current context or in future context? Imagine telling someone in the 1700's that in the future you'd have a glass lens in your eye (no polymer membranes yet) to see better, or wires attached to your heart. They'd consider you a heretic.


Ok, but ads aren't going to fundamentally shift away from being a method to induce people to consume unnecessarily in 300 years. That's just what they are.




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