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Maybe she is in a holdback experiment. To understand how a feature affects the metrics (such as running ads), they often have some people in a holdback. I worked there and we did have such experiments for our features.


Isn't that pretty unethical without an IRB and informed consent?


How does ethics even come into this? They didn't require consent to show ads in the first place. Why require consent to not show ads?


this comment is hilarious no matter how you look at it


The is the advertising industry, unethical is their middle name


That's academic ethics. Academia holds itself to a high standard - voluntarily. Used car salesmen do not.


I mean, it’s Google.




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