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The mainstream internet of today exists to serve the advertising industry (including but not limited to Google) and things that don't so serve will be marginalized like an organism rejecting a foreign body or disease. It's funny, because really the thing that makes users "more significant" than bots for the average website operator is that showing ads to real people has a monetary value attached to it. That is the only reason you prove your humanity to a machine: to validate your suitability as a target for ad spend.



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