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Companies already pay people to act as ads by walking around wearing or carrying something with their logo on it, or to hang out in bars and video games in orde
by autoexec 1y ago
Companies already pay people to act as ads by walking around wearing or carrying something with their logo on it, or to hang out in bars and video games in order to casually name drop products while talking to people and pretending to have normal conversations. Influencers are paid to push products in videos and social media posts without any disclosure. Human-powered advertising is everywhere.
- sunrunner 1y agoGood points, although there's a level there where you're not directly opting in to those and are somewhat a passive consumer (if you ignore being conscious of being immersed in an ad-laden environment), while the Ad Buddy model seems to sit just before directly and simply paying for the service or product by having your balance topped up by opting in to as direct an ad as I could imagine that's not subliminal messaging.