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Comment by OsrsNeedsf2P

10 months ago

This is how every big tech works. Leech onto high priority projects and call it "impact"

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tdeck  10 months ago

At Google even if you aren't trying to make money, you can get preferred placement in search for some project to boost user numbers and reach. I always worried it made teams complacent about actually making a good product people wanted, but it was hard to resist.

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