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BMW Is Showing Commercials On Their Car's Dash Screens And They Want You To Think It's A Treat
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this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2026
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Tech companies do something called A/B testing where they will release a "feature" such as Ads to a segment of the user base and not to the others to see how they respond to decide if they want to release it to everyone, so yes in many instances we do live in parallel realities.