Extremely manipulative or false/misleading advertising is extremely evil. Slightly manipulative or false/misleading advertising is slightly evil. 99% of adverti

Extremely manipulative or false/misleading advertising is extremely evil. Slightly manipulative or false/misleading advertising is slightly evil. 99% of advertising isn't about the product itself as much as about how you will feel or be perceived if only you buy it. Even the web is full of that, there isn't a day where not a landing page gets posted on HN which is full of fluff instead of simply factually describing what the product does, not to mention how it compares to the 500 other products that do the exact same thing. Advertising, for the most part, is designed to route around the informed decision making process, and trying to associate the product with other things, instead of a detailed description of it. That you suggest that makes up the minority of advertising, or that there is a honest, factual way to "suggest" someone buy a burger, is what's laughable to me. Compare such stuff to, say, the description of a table in a catalogue; material, dimensions, a photo of it without a person in it = "kbye, and thx for not wasting my time or trying to push nonsense into my brain". Anything beyond that is evil in my books, and evil being subjective, you don't really get to decide about that either. I can explain why I consider it evil, I just did, and just saying "nope" is not sufficient to convince me otherwise.