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The Earbits guys do this for a video tour of their website. The first time you visit it there's a banner link to watch that video, but if you click it it says something along the lines of "thank you for your interests, we wanted to know if people actually want to see that video before hiring Spielberg to make it for real". This is brilliant and the fun part of the message even makes users happy with not seeing the video.


this is not really faking it. It's just being smart. & funny.


But that's exactly what the companies cited in the article did.




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