• TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    I find it wild that people are still under the impression that advertising doesn’t work. I get it, you block ads, you aggressively ignore them, you feel like they never influence you. Same here. But they do influence us. A little bit here and there. Then consider that most people are way more suggestible than we are. If ads didn’t work, they would’ve never been a thing.

    You might think you cannot afford to buy most things advertised, but the numbers don’t lie. They’ll get you eventually. Even if it’s just $3. Not having money never really stopped people from spending it anyhow.

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      11 days ago

      It’s unlikely that you’re exceptional in your resistance to advertising.

      It’s just that 95% of all advertising fails to hit its intended target.