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In true market economy fashion, the comfort noise is also a perfect advertising opportunity.

For instance, I frequently deal with ATM machines that display "please wait" screens between every operation. Those screens last usually between 1 and 3 seconds, and it's obviously because the operations take that long, and totally not because they also display a half-screen or full-screen ad...



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