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Not scary to me -- I believe that advertising should be exactly like this: Inform you of a product, tell you what value it can offer you, then allow you to mak

• vog 16y ago
  > Advertising is only evil when it is deceptive. ... or when it isn't clearly visible as such. However, this one indeed seems to be labeled clearly enough. Still it looks like a personal user report at a first glance, and that's kind of scary.
  • patio11 16y ago
    It is a personal user report, because the guy trying to sell folks an A/B testing service uses it to A/B test his own site. That doesn't strike me as abnormal. In fact, if hypothetically a multi-billion dollar multinational advertising firm did not routinely dogfood its own A/B testing service, I would consider that a strike against them.
    • vog 16y ago
      > It is a personal user report No, it is a corporate usage report. It is just the writing style that makes it look "personal". This difference may be subtle, but it is important, because it has a huge impact on how trustworthy the information is. And finding the right level of trust for various information is exactly what makes the difference between an informed user and a persuaded user. (BTW, it is of course very positive that they make use of their own product, and this is certainly not what I'm criticizing.)