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[โ€“] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Dunno about selling ads, but rooting through people's garbage is a massively important part of archaeology/anthropology!

[โ€“] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

It's also an important part of preparing for a hack, the discoveries in the garbage are used for social engineering, which is used for hacking. See the movie Sneakers for a great example.