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> we're suckers that keep on buying and making it work, or at least we make it look like it works True, but there is a huge power asymmetry. While advertisers

> we're suckers that keep on buying and making it work, or at least we make it look like it works True, but there is a huge power asymmetry. While advertisers do this day-in-day-out, and use all the latest psychological hacks they can get their hards on, regular people need to go about their day-to-day lives, with the usual daily struggles. That doesn't leave much time for education, which is sorely needed to not "be a sucker". Advertising is so damn slick these days.

csydas 10y ago
Old response, but in case you check... Just wanted to clarify that I'm not blaming us for getting suckered in, it's more that everything we do, whether intentional or not, plays into it. It's a self-feeding beast; you go to a website and a dozen trackers pull your private data, send it off in sale, and somewhere down the line you get served an ad for self-sealing stembolts; advertisers call this a success and claim the system works. Accidentally fat-finger the ad on your phone? Amazing success! Just about any time you touch a piece of technology, you send off data for the advertisers. Buy some fruit at the market and use your market card? Advertisers know. Or order something online from a "no name" shop? Advertisers know. So it's not that we're guilty of anything but doing what we are expected to - it just it's costly.