I think the publishers have been equally stupid here because they were all hopelessly addicted to Google and they never thought that Google would do anything to harm the web. >> Right? Most of them did not make other plans. Just straightforwardly, most of these companies did not make other plans. They did not see the asteroid coming at them. Even as I'm going to say it one more time, I would run around this industry being like, "Do you see the asteroid. Do you see the increase in the percentage of zero-clic ...

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