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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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  - Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Again, context matters.
    
    In a context that’s explicitly anti-ads, they’re not going to benefit from me quoting a snippet of their aural assault.
    
    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.~ doubled and then tripled down on being willfully blind to context in an obnoxiously condescending manner.
    
    To put it bluntly since you’re not one to pick up on clues: shut the fuck up with your bullshit, please.
    
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    Decoy321@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Oi. Keep it civil. Take a day off from here to learn how to do that.
    
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    Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    This seems like a pretty extreme reaction to having something very basic pointed out.
    
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