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Cake day: August 2nd, 2023

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  • You do, and don’t fool yourself that you don’t.

    You probably don’t click on ads, but they stick in your brain. You might see a half-dozen ads for Doritos, and then when you go to the store a week later, you’re slightly more likely to buy Doritos.

    The vast majority of advertising is just getting a brand or an idea into the back of your head so when you’re looking for something in that product category, regardless of it’s a VPN, a web host, a snack food, a car, or whatever, you’re going to have a bias towards what you’ve seen in the past.

    Most of my ad-blocking isn’t to stop myself from buying some herbal supplement/spray tanner combo, it’s to stop myself from being biased by the capitalist propaganda machine.

    I am not immune from advertisements, and neither are you.










  • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldCords
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    23 days ago

    You don’t work around dangerous things assuming you’ll never make a mistake, you work around dangerous things assuming you’ll never make three mistakes at the same time.

    You are not immune to making one (or more) mistakes, no matter how careful you think you are.