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      "description": "The news media so badly wants to know usage data that they just accept Sensor Tower and other such firms’ pronouncements at face value, without ever describing — let alone questioning — how they osten...",
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      "title": "What’s the Deal With Sensor Tower?",
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  "text": "\u003e There are other companies in the same racket as Sensor Tower. The next-most-frequently cited, at least in my reading, is Similarweb. Similarweb’s own description of how they source their data is far more opaque than Sensor Tower’s, and thus strikes me as even more dubious."
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