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		afterburner on Dec 12, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You can take down Pirate Bay, but you can’t kill t... Not really, that advertising money has to go somewhere. It's an industry of salespeople, so they're probably pretty good convincing people ads are necessary.

marcosdumay on Dec 12, 2014 | [–]

That money is going into "utilitarian" computer software, both served over the web or installed on people's phones.

And yes, a bug chunk of it appears to be going away from advertising.

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