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Advertising is manipulative by design. They’re trying to convince you to purchase something you wouldn’t have otherwise, and the easiest way to do that is to play into your insecurities.

Advertising has always been all lies. Advertisers ultimately corrupt ad supported media, too. I hope in the future, we as a society recognize how corrosive advertising is, and ban it.

Social media would be significantly smaller if there was no AI. Internet scams have their genesis with advertising.

Its actually a very quick easy win.

How would David Ogilvy have targeted an illiterate audience?

Advertising was shit forever. People liked magazine advertisements because they lacked the media literacy to understand how they were being manipulated.

I mean, this is true. But it's more true for some things than others.

I remember a day when computer-related advertising wasn't generally shit. It was certainly trying to be persuasive, but it focused on the actual details of the products on offer rather than the feel-good or lifestyle pitches that they are now.

You really could get an idea of if a product would help you or not from the ads. These days, you simply can't.

Who said people liked advertising ? The advertisers ?

Advertising Is Shit Now