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  • @Melco@lemmy.world
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    241 year ago

    Its more akin to brainwashing. The most effective brainwashing technique is to repeat a falsehood over and over and eventually the subject integrates and believes it. This is exactly what advertising does and unfortunately for society it works.

      • @Melco@lemmy.world
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        31 year ago

        Exactly, this is why the selfhosting community is full of user testimonials on how great tailscale is or how beneficial it is to funnel all of your traffic through cloudflair.

        A new user will read that over and over and think I guess this is the consensus on how to do things.

        The problem is there are no bots out there telling you that there are well proven open source tools that have been around for half a century that solve the same problem and there is no need for these 3rd party commercial products.

        Advertising works and covert native advertising and unbiased “user testimonials” is very effective at shaping opinion, especially in a bot driven ai world.