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vdnkh
on Feb 10, 2025
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Advertising Is a Cancer on Society (2019)
This is incredibly petty of me but why do people keep spelling "ads" as "ADs" lately? It's an abbreviation not an initialism
DamnInteresting
on Feb 10, 2025
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It could be a backronym for Asshole Design.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym
chefandy
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Phone autocorrect usually is the culprit for those types of typos for me. I imagine this crowd would be more likely than many to have that common abbreviation for Active Domains trained into their input methods.
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