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> If you’re marketing vape pens to teenagers, trying to convince consumers climate change is their problem, promoting vaccine misinformation, or designing dark
by Hard_Space 5y ago
> If you’re marketing vape pens to teenagers, trying to convince consumers climate change is their problem, promoting vaccine misinformation, or designing dark patterns to mislead web users, stop. Your $#!^^y marketing is the problem. Your $#!^^y marketing is why people think all marketing is evil.
Exploiting weakness is Marketing #101, and deferring your moral compass to the needs of the client is Marketing #102, so I don't see any way that change will happen, in this respect.
- Chris2048 5y ago> promoting vaccine misinformation This is a worrying inclusion - are payed marketers doing this? To who's gain?
- pessimizer 5y agoThe entire trend was started by Andrew Wakefield, who was planning to roll out his own fake vaccine product. Almost everybody who actively attacks vaccines is selling something.
- Chris2048 5y ago> Almost everybody who actively attacks vaccines is selling something I'm going to see more evidence for that as I see the claim as extraordinary; there are plenty of convinced anti-vaxxers who promote this viewpoint without personal gain IMHO.
- op03 5y agoExploitation at large scale is an ancient story. And it will end the same way colonialism and slavery ended. With a lot of drama.