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So long as we live in an economy based on selling things, people are going to try to sell you things. They're going to do it as effectively as they can.

Advertisers have been thinking about demographics since there's been advertising. Advertisers' needs have dictated the TV shows that do and don't see the light of day for half a century. Behavior prediction models have been around for decades, now they're just better.



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