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We're building on our earlier success getting web developers to pay to change the backslashes in our displayed payment URL to forward slashes.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3113/
So like all ~~company's~~ companies' business models.
Edit: thanks for the spell check
In the spirit of the comic,
*companies'
Usually they pay graphic designers to extort others.
Often by extorting those graphic designers, too. Pay a little and offer "exposure" (or find a way to blatantly rip off other designers). Anything to mitigate that bottom line.
Addendum: you can die from exposure.