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    • GaumBeist@lemmy.ml
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      14 hours ago

      The worse the product is, the more desperate they get to shove it in your face. Good products don’t need to pay others to pretend it’s good, you just find out via word-of-mouth or free trials

      • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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        13 hours ago

        I was thinking about this just the other day. There’s a popular market in my home state, one I’ve been going to since childhood. It’s a single store, not a chain, and it’s almost always packed. I’ve never seen nor heard a single ad for it in my life. Naturally, that makes me like the place even more.

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      12 hours ago

      People say this but, if advertising didn’t work, companies would have stopped paying for ads long time ago. It works for them, we view ads and then we are willing to pay more for a product that is worth less; it’s this simple.

      The only solution for us is to avoid ads at all cost.

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        3 hours ago

        Yeah - ads do work. The whole point of the surveillance ad system is to track how effective ads are. Companies can measure how many sales they get from their ads and calculate if they are still making a profit. And all those influencers peddling scam products with their special discount codes? People are buying those products.

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      15 hours ago

      Yep I actively avoid companies that inundate me. I’ve switched insurance companies because of it (local agent got me much better rates too).