pedlars

But it's irritating to see the [allegedly] quality press increasingly adopting the tactics of the click-bait trash pedlars.

These chatbot pedlars could teach snake oil salesmen a thing or two.

Glad it’s not that the spam pedlars have suddenly gotten clever.

Wish there were more Steve Albinis in the tech world, confident going their own way and not sucking up to big-tech pedlars of digital dross.

To a monopolist.) Pedlars were licensed by a monopolist.

Every cycle has its real innovators and hype-pedlars.

Then there were artisans in the process of delivering their merchandise, pedlars transporting their gimcrackery in a bag, strolling players looking for a suitable place to present their turns.

> Wish there were more Steve Albinis in the tech world, confident going their own way and not sucking up to big-tech pedlars of digital dross.

Perhaps that is the point of this semantic spam, to discombobulate and jam the value perceptions of the public so much that they are unable to differentiate anything genuine from the tide spewed by the shit-pedlars.

In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if this issue was created just so there could be a “marketplace” for codec pedlars...

Pedlars of snake oil have featured in cautionary tales since time immemorial.