Goes way beyond that. Ton of advertising on here, Facebook groups are probably 95% ads, half or more of the Reddit subs are ads. People who do not work in the a

Goes way beyond that. Ton of advertising on here, Facebook groups are probably 95% ads, half or more of the Reddit subs are ads. People who do not work in the advertising industry sometimes have no idea when they are being sold to. These people are not dumb either, they are engineers, doctors, lawyers, you name it, but all are equally prone to psychological manipulation. The Instagram article is mild in comparison to some of the other market research and sales strategies out there. Paid content advertising can be so well done that most readers won’t have a clue they are being taken advantage of. Some will even go to lengths to defend the advertiser saying that the ad was relevant to them.