This is true. No one wrote "websites have entered the grift era" in the early 2000s when non tech savvy marketers figured out that 50 bucks for a csv database

This is true. No one wrote "websites have entered the grift era" in the early 2000s when non tech savvy marketers figured out that 50 bucks for a csv database and "scripts" meant they could throw up seo spam on the web for page view revenue