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Tools for fools.

Less exploit, more fraud. Still, I am surprised it took so long to spot given how huge online shopping is.

Not overly pedantic at all as it highlights that by using venom the hunters were able to eat what they shot.

For other readers' benefit: Girocard is not related to Girobank https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girobank or using said Girobank's Girocard to pay bills or collect dole.


While TFA is anecdote, the author mentions maintaining their spend, being gifted adword budget, and getting lower returns so increasing spend.

This suggests adword revenue is up, conversion to adword 'dollar' balances is inflating those balances, so both return per dollar in is down and even more down is return per adword balance dollar.

It's a leading indicator that quarterly-return focused Google must be scrambling to fix right now - they inflated themselves out of Q4 2025 but 2026 is a question mark, or to parle some Boxton Matrix, is the cash cow dying and if so is the extension strategy ad injection in AI responses, product placement in your AI videos, background changes in your family snaps, etc.


Sounds like a very noisy submarine.


Why downvoted? This is correct.


You encountered an App Spam. They litter app stores. Like spam videos on YouTube.

It only makes an ever stronger case for good software.


The average body temperature then was also higher.


How could that be observed?


It wasn't at that time. All we know is that average body temperature has been decreasing since the mid 1800s when we first started measuring it.


Just throwing an idea out there, mercury or alcohol thermometers were often used.

These would be far less pure in to 1800s. That would effect the accuracy of readings.

They were also hand made back then too.

If the theory of body temp being higher is predicated upon averages, it could skew. I wonder if such studies took this into account?


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