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Sorry to burst your bubble but advertising is always lying and shilling.

• Xylakant 9y ago
  That makes it even more important to call it out.
• rkangel 9y ago
  No, it's really not. Pages I have open: In the jobs boxout on StackOverflow I'm pretty confident that McLaren Applied Technologies is looking a lead C#/.NET developer. On another page, the UK Mobile network '3' is offering 12Gb for the price of 4Gb. I know that's true because I took them up on it (and even for 4Gb it's still cheaper than any other network). I could provide many other counter-examples but I don't need to because you used 'always' in your absolutist statement. Yes, a lot of advertising twists the truth. No, not everything does. And for things that we hold to a higher standard (like a great open source project like Gitlab) we can point out places where they don't meet that standard in the (not unrealistic) hope that they'll improve.
  • asfdsfggtfd 9y ago
    > I'm pretty confident that McLaren Applied Technologies is looking a lead C#/.NET developer. Are you certain? Maybe they have an internal promotion but company policy/legal compliance forces them to advertise the role publicly? > On another page, the UK Mobile network '3' is offering 12Gb for the price of 4Gb. I know that's true because I took them up on it (and even for 4Gb it's still cheaper than any other network). How long for? Is this one of those contracts where it is 3 for 1 for a year then double price next year... NB I'm absolutely not accusing either of these specific companies of being dishonest.