I’ve been informed that adblock plus sort of sucks now. If you’re looking for one, go for UBlock Origin.

  • @[email protected]
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    The bane of marketing.

    Somewhere, some metric told them that they don’t need to make good ads that explain the product. They only need to be as annoying as possible to garner attention, and put their branding on the end to be remembered.

    Marketing is about hacking your brain in order to sell you products you do not need. It is horrible and should be banned entirely.

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      8 months ago

      “Marketing” is just a euphemism for “propaganda” and is just as unethical (if not even more so).

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        Yes, it is propaganda, and to build on the comment you’re replying to, one of the tactics they use instead of explaining their product is simply repetitiveness.

        If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. -Joseph Goebbels

        Simply repeat your ad often enough in front of enough people, and an amount of those people will stop questioning the ad and take it as gospel.