Comment on How not to advertise 101!

• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah, because who doesn’t dream of such wonderful word of mouth as being vilified on a thread about hating ads on an open source forum where most users actively oppose corporations? 🙄

  I’d never heard of shopify until now.

  I’d apologize for ruining your streak of good luck, but based on the glibly condescending and confidently wrong first part of your comment, it sounds like you deserve shopify ads 🤷🏻

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  • Tja@programming.dev ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Being vilified for “annoying ads” doesn’t tell me anything negative about the product or the company, just that someone on the internet whines about a minor inconvenience. And if I needed something similar I would check them out.

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  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    glibly condescending and confidently wrong

    Advertisers do want people exactly like you - people for whom their ads stick in the mind, and who will go around telling other people about their product. You might oppose them, as do most people here - but if any person reading this doesn’t hold the same lack of regard as you, or are put off by your behavior here, you’re actively giving them attention that results in a net positive.

    Advertising is little more than corporate propaganda - and as the wise cat says, you’re not immune to propaganda.

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Advertisers do want people exactly like you

      I promise you they don’t.

      who will go around telling other people about their product

      That’s not what I’m doing and you’d have known that if you paid attention to context rather than automatically apply your generalizations about ad effectiveness where they don’t apply.

      You even repeated part of their copy for us, so now we know generally what service they provide

      Except the “copy” does NOT in fact disclose that. I’m not gonna (in your mind) prove you right by telling you what they do, but one of the many things they DON’T do is helping people start a business.

      if any person reading this doesn’t hold the same lack of regard for corporate interests as you

      What kind of contrarian idiot would read this far down a thread specifically about hating ads for product recommendations? Other than yourself, of course.

      Advertising is ~little more than~ corporate propaganda

      Fixed it for you

      you are not immune to propaganda.

      Nobody inherently is, but that doesn’t mean that ALL propaganda works on ALL people.

      The world isn’t a binary like that.

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      • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s not what I’m doing and you’d have known that

        That is literally, textually, what you have done. It clearly was not something you intended to do, but you still did it. You brought their ad copy into a place where it does not ordinarily reach. You even quoted them while doing it.

        You might not like that you’ve done it, but no amount of quote replying can change that you’ve done something quite valuable for them.

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