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The entire advertising industry is scum. I worked in it for two years and wish I never did. That's a sin I now atone for by discouraging younger developers from making the same mistake, using the harshest language I think dang will permit. It doesn't matter if there is no telemetry (and if this were to be normalized, there would eventually be telemetry. Such are the economic incentives in the ad industry. When it's p…
>That's a sin I now atone for by discouraging younger developers from making the same mistake, using the harshest language I think dang will permit. I'm not against your crusade. I would suggest that instead you pick up some books on how to influence people (not talking just about Dale Carnegie here), as well as how to present an argument. Harsh language, shaming, having an absolutist/binary stance, making broad clai…
> Once again: All I need to do is think of one counterexample where both parties gained value (monetarily and psychologically)
You know damn well, but are unlikely to admit unless perhaps called on it, that an advertising professional that gives value to a consumer one day will be just as willing to take it the next. The advertising professional is not motivated by a desire to help the consumer and cases where that happens are incidental at best (and rare.) There is a lot of delusion in the industry too. Advertisers in the pharma space will swear themselves blue that they're helping consumers to find medication that will earnestly help them, but these advertisers are not altruists, they do I because they're paid. And more damning, their industry (pharma advertising) is illegal in other countries with good reason. But this is an industry that regularly turns its own techniques in on itself, using their rhetorical/persuasive skills on their own, to reassure their own that what they're doing is humanitarian.