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I agree with you, and I don't necessarily agree with the parent, but I understand where they're coming from because I felt that way in the past. "Marketing is

I agree with you, and I don't necessarily agree with the parent, but I understand where they're coming from because I felt that way in the past. "Marketing is evil" worldview aside, the idea that manipulating human behavior can be reduced to a three-letter acronym, and that it can be so formulaic and still be so effective is I think what people find off-putting.

wastedhours 9y ago
It just strikes me as odd when people are happy with things like UX (designing something to create a feeling in order to convince a person and to get them comfortable undertaking the action you want them to. Formulaic in the sense there's a whole industry around "best practice"), or A/B testing (covert science experiments on real people to design systems to increase the likelihood of similar humans taking the action you want. Similarly so.). And yet marketing, because it's perceived as being detached from the product (which it really isn't) is the bad actor because it's explicit and transparent about its goal. Amuses me as much as it frustrates.