Comment on Cox deletes ‘Active Listening’ ad pitch after boasting that it eavesdrops though our phones

AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• patchexempt@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve worked with marketers for years. many of them have a blind spot for what they create: they can realize something is irritating, or invasive, but not when it’s their marketing, which is obviously superior and what people want to see. it’s some sort of artist+marketer brainrot.

  sorry to generalize, I’ve just seen it a lot over the years.

  I imagine this is something like it: we’ll reach them with the perfect message, it’ll be exactly what they want! won’t that be delightful?

  …completely ignoring how horrifying it is.

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• JoBo@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This was a pitch to their customers. They just forgot that we could hear them too.

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