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I agree. As if they're fooling anyone pretending to be an anonymous stranger from gmail who just happens to love promoting airbnb.


Didn't they fool pretty much everyone? Even the author only had a suspicion and resorted to some (impressive) tests to verify.


Do real humans send out advertisements to strangers on behalf of websites? Making sure to cite pageviews?

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad he confirmed his suspicion before blogging about this. But even one e-mail like that is suspicious.




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