Google threatened tech influencers unless they ‘preferred’ the Pixel

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Google threatened tech influencers unless they ‘preferred’ the Pixel
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Influencer is a fancy word for salesman. Instead of going door to door like grandpa did in the old days, they stream directly to your device.

influencers used to be called attention whores but you can't really use that term if you want to shill products

Yeah that's kinda my whole disconnect from this stuff from the get go. These guys were begging for attention! Huge turn off