Your coworker buying a BMW is not abuse, but BMW causing you to want to buy one through their marketing is. Selling a product is passive. Advertising that prod

Your coworker buying a BMW is not abuse, but BMW causing you to want to buy one through their marketing is. Selling a product is passive. Advertising that product is active. A company selling a product is not abuse. However, stores serve as advertisements for the products they sell. I would say that such stores - and the salespeople within them - are abusive. > my kids only activate ads accidentally and then have to come to me to figure out how to get out of the trap that the ad has led them into, since closing the ad can be tricky. Advertising aside, would you agree imposing a difficult to navigate user interface is abusive? I would.