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These scam robot dog ads are so bad they're actually kind of amazing

Grant St. Clair
May 19, 2025
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If you've been on any video-sharing website, you've almost certainly seen one of those perplexing ads recently. You know, those ads: inexplicable Christmas music over a montage of clips of what is purportedly an extremely sophisticated robot dog. They've been absolutely everywhere, and though it doesn't take a detect…

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