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• HogsTooth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  On a bigger scale, I think it’s all wasted money. Maybe its the autism, but the more I see a company name, any company name, the less I want it in my house.

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The data is very clear… Ads work. They absolutely shouldn’t almost ever, but they do. With the cornucopia of analytics available, companies have long been able to see if their ads work, and if they didn’t, they would’ve stopped long ago. Hell even before the Internet they had ways to prove ads work.

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    • HogsTooth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Then stop beating the “it’s all hopeless” drum. You’re certainly not going to change my mind.

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      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Uh I didn’t…

        Ads work. It’s a fact. Just because it’s a sad fact doesn’t mean I want you to be sad.

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  • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    if you think it doesn’t work on you, it’s more likely to work on you. if it didn’t work the world would be a much better place, but unfortunately they definitely work.

    but i agree it’s stupid especially as a business model and it shouldn’t exist.

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    • HogsTooth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You sound like an ad for advertising.

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      • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        yeah ads famously criticize the product and talk about how dangerous they are.

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