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Dispatch // 021
The Apology Deleted the Promise
HubSpot's four-day data-sharing reversal got the redemption-arc coverage. Nobody diffed the terms they reverted to. The commercial-dataset machinery is still in force, and the one sentence that promised your data stays yours between accounts was deleted during the apology.
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