• marcos@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Not so fast. The idea that “if companies spend that much, they must have a reason” isn’t any good either.

    Some ads obviously work, some ads obviously don’t work, and most of them aren’t in either of those categories.

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      1 day ago

      Fair point.

      But recently I encountered several people with the opinion that ads don’t ever work on them. And while not all ads work well and some people are more susceptible to them than others, I think very few people if any can claim ads don’t work on them at all.

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        5 hours ago

        Ads don’t work on me CMV

        Though it’s probably because advertisers never promote things I actually want.

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          7 hours ago

          Meanwhile to me this is another piece of exasperating spam. My Steam account hasn’t been active in close to a decade but they never stop