> Let's make broad claims about how people in tech marketing must be idiots! That's not really where I was going with it, just pointing out that sales and mark

> Let's make broad claims about how people in tech marketing must be idiots! That's not really where I was going with it, just pointing out that sales and marketing start out with reasonable "what if I could..." scenarios and don't really care about the implementation. > I don't think any reasonably competent marketer would ever suggest installing some adware as a "feature" so that they could market it. You're right, because they don't think at the implementation level. What I think _did_ happen, if my experience is any indication, is that someone said "I think showing users suggested products would be a tremendous value add! Let the eggheads figure out how to do it." What you end up with is what needs to be done at a technical level in order to fulfill marketing's requirements. It ain't always pretty.