See, whether a startup is silly or not is an opinion. I happen to have an opinion that adtech is evil. Whether it has a side benefit like allowing &quot;content&quot; to exist is tangential.<p>I <i>usually</i> keep that opinion to myself because it&#x27;s not a popular one, but in this particular subthread we are not discussing the article, we are discussing the author who volunteered his &quot;I am very hypocritical&quot; comment.<p>Elsewhere in this comment thread I discuss the article.