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myrmepropagandist @futurebird@sauropods.win
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The only ads I want to see are the posters my kids make telling me to come see their musical, posts on here about how someone wrote a book, made a clay pot or designed some software. And the ads from the shady local lawyers in NYC who try to make up raps about how they will help you if you have been injured in a car accident.
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird@sauropods.win
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There are levels to advertising. The most basic is a person who wants you to buy their thing. The ad simply tells you what the thing is and asks you to buy it.

The next level are ads that generate a BRAND they give the brand an image and mystique. These start to work on your emotions.

The next level manipulates your emotions, ads that make you feel FOMO, or ugly, or raw lust, they try to circumvent the mind and generate irrational desire.
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Michael Reese @notoriousiptg@fediscience.org
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@futurebird once upon a time I was waiting in a market checkout with a friend and she saw a Snickers bar and vocalized "mmm...satisfying" and purchased it before her frontal lobe caught up. I wasn't sure if I wanted to laugh or cry
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird@sauropods.win
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@notoriousiptg

This is funny but it annoys me that many many people, maybe most people, don't really think that ads can do this to them.

"I just ignore the ads"
"I am less likely to buy the product if I see an ad"

etc. etc. I want to think it's true too, but the data do not agree. And often we don't even know when the advertising is occurring.
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird@sauropods.win
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@notoriousiptg

I had a friend of my mom say that "she'd blocked all ads" on her laptop. This was NOT true even a little. And since she used facebook there were these inline posts, promoted political topics, and... ads... that she just didn't even know were ads.

It turned out she meant that she didn't see pop-ups and banner ads often. She had some kind of blocker installed but it wasn't doing much.
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walnut 🌱 @walnut@thesoftestpaws.net
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With facebook recently beating ublock in the war of attrition it's only going to get worse there. I'm not sure who exactly has that as their Rubicon to jump ship, but I can wish
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