Did you not see the documentary on how the private advertising company used Facebook to run ads to specific demographics of people to influence an election?
Also your comment about trying to sell you stupid shit, you may think the ads are stupid and that you’d never buy the stuff or pay much attention to whatever idea its pushing, but maybe the idea of the advertisement isn’t to instantly sell you on something but slowly change your thinking subconsciously?
I also like to think I’m impervious to a lot of marketing BS, but then again am I the same as the people who say, people are stupid for getting scammed, only to fall victim to a scammer because they thought they were smart enough not to?
The advertising company you mentioned is Cambridge Analytica, right? If so, and not something else, I’d like to add this shit has come to light and exploded in 2018. We have to wonder how many others went dark after that and what shit they have come up with since then, in these 5 years.
To be fair I do use the basic level of protection, ad blockers and what have you. So if they are trying to influence me with ads, well, I’m not seeing them.
But I don’t go the full 3 layers of ad block with a pihole and a VPN.
Did you not see the documentary on how the private advertising company used Facebook to run ads to specific demographics of people to influence an election?
Also your comment about trying to sell you stupid shit, you may think the ads are stupid and that you’d never buy the stuff or pay much attention to whatever idea its pushing, but maybe the idea of the advertisement isn’t to instantly sell you on something but slowly change your thinking subconsciously?
I also like to think I’m impervious to a lot of marketing BS, but then again am I the same as the people who say, people are stupid for getting scammed, only to fall victim to a scammer because they thought they were smart enough not to?
The advertising company you mentioned is Cambridge Analytica, right? If so, and not something else, I’d like to add this shit has come to light and exploded in 2018. We have to wonder how many others went dark after that and what shit they have come up with since then, in these 5 years.
To be fair I do use the basic level of protection, ad blockers and what have you. So if they are trying to influence me with ads, well, I’m not seeing them.
But I don’t go the full 3 layers of ad block with a pihole and a VPN.