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		huhtenberg 13 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I han... WhatsApp infamously did just that. It vacuumed the contacts and spammed them with "Join me on WhatsApp". One of the reasons for their initial exponential growth.

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pousada 13 days ago | [–]

Almost everything coming out of Silicon Valley has an unethical past(present?) if you look at it a bit more closely.

reformdEngineer 13 days ago | [–]

Venmo did this too

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