Do ads even work? For the longest time I thought they just don't work a 100% but recently I had this thought that maybe this is just me imposing my perception of everything onto other people? If you have like an 80IQ person who sees a video shilling a VPN they will actually buy it because the guy is recommending it? All I think about when I see a recommendation like this is that this recommendation is paid and the product is worse because of this payment or more expensive because of this payment.
>>82674215>Do ads even workYes why also would come companies spend money on them?
>>82674228Ok. 100% yes. But then how the fuck do they work?
>>82674264Because most people are stupid and gullible.
>>82674264They spread awareness of the product and keep it being discussed by people. An ad won't convince you to give a fuck about a product you just don't want, but it can inform someone that something they want exists, and no one is born knowing everything that is available for consumption, the ads are part of why big brands remain relevant and recognizable. An ideal ad also manages to charm people into thinking the product is "cool", see Bernays' smoking campaign, but even one that just preserves the baseline level of attention toward the product is already doing a decent job.
Perhaps you are immune to propaganda. Normies are not.
>>82674731No one is immune to propaganda, if it doesn't work on you it's because you're not the target.
One time I saw an ad for dunkin donuts hash browns and that reminded me of potatoes so I bought a bag of frozen curly fries when I went grocery shopping later that week. I think a lot of advertising is trying to get something stuck in your head so that when you buy [thing] you remember [ad for specific brand]
>>82674215not for me, it drives me up the fucking wall whenever I get shown an ad of some retard in their car shilling a product as if it's a tiktoklike, normalfags must see a random woman pop up talking about how amazing and trendy X product is, and immediately trust her as if it is a legitimate human interaction they're having
>>82674215They work on the vast majority of people. They don't work on autists and high IQ individuals. As a high IQ schizoid, I block ads on all of my devices. But still I get to see/hear ads outside on busses, or on billboards. But they have the opposite effect on me, in that they make me not want to use the product/service being advertised, because the ad has annoyed me. What usually happens is I'm exposed to an ad for something and even if I'm interested in that something, I'll go online and find a competing product and get that instead. Like imagine seeing an ad for a Samsung phone and instead buying a Sony (which I have).
>>82674786lmao based. yeah I have the idea that if a company is spending a massive amount of money shoving their thing into my face, then it must not be as good as their rivals
>>82674813>Anon sees an ad for Pepsi>Heh idiots I can see through their deception I'll buy a coke instead
>>82674842I mean I almost never get influenced by the ad at all and merely close it like the other 99% of the time, that was assuming it was a very rare case I might have actually been interested in it.
>>82674786Mostly same, but I don't buy a competing product. I just don't buy anything I don't want. Ads just piss me off.
>>82674813>I have the idea that if a company is spending a massive amount of money shoving their thing into my face, then it must not be as good as their rivalsThis but I also have a visceral hate for the entire ad industry. A shit industry that exists only to peddle shit and propaganda to gullible fools. I knew someone who worked in that industry and they were forced to pull long hours to deliver all sorts of useless bullshit Excel/Word files to help target the propaganda more effectively. Bunch of completely useless work and wasted hours on their part. Imagine if we employed people to do something useful instead of planning how to convincingly lie about products and services.I have no use for advertising in my life and I see no point in its existence. I buy products based on user/specialty reviews and I buy food based on what I see on ingredient labels after walking into stores. Humanity doesn't need this bullshit industry and it should be abolished.
>>82674842NTA and I see why it might look retarded but I don't think it is. Unless you prove that huge companies have mutually assured advertisement.
>>82674856>I don't buy a competing product.Same, I was just talking about cases where I'm actually interested in the type of product that is being advertised. For example I'm thinking of buying a new phone and I see a phone being advertised, so I buy a from a competing phone brand that's not being advertised. If I have no interest in that type of product, I simply ignore the ad and buy nothing.
>>82674384>can inform someone that something they want exists, and no one is born knowing everything that is available for consumptionI think that is an antiquated thing that was legit before the internet. Now it is used to justify existence of ads but it is not real. If you want something you find it on the internet easily. Reminding someone that pepsi exists when they simply forgot it exists is malicious.
>>82674878this is why high IQ people have android phones and cattle have iPhones
>>82674893High IQ people have Androids running privacy-focused, de-Googled OSs like LineageOS, GrapheneOS and /e/OS. In my country the vast majority of people have Androids, mostly spyware-filled Chinesium junk brand phones and laggy/stuttery Samsungs running Google's spyware services. I agree iPhones are for even dumber people who care about looking rich and spend $1000 on a phone to go on Facebook and Spotify. But plenty of brainlets are on Android as well, letting their data leak to the CCP and the Pajeet-led monopolistic internet corporation.
>>82674858advertisement is free speech you need to develop a real political philosophy instead of: "the government should do an authoritarianism against things I dislike"
>>82674919I personally chose the option of giving up the battle for privacy because my specific data is irrelevant to the CCP and whatever government, besides to curate advertisements which I'll always hate anyway.to me it's not wrong to fight for privacy, just fruitless
>out with friends>hungry>"where do you guys wanna eat">remember seeing a commercial that papa slop's has a buy 4 get 4 deal>"what about pizza"It works like that
>>82674920When did I say the government should replace advertising with a version of their own? I'm simply against making dishonestly lying about products a job and industry. I think it is ethically wrong and unnecessary.
>>82674940It's not fruitless because I'm not sacrificing anything for privacy. My phones run faster and their battery lasts longer. I have microG, so I can run all the apps I want to run. And setting all of this stuff up on all of my devices doesn't take long. OpenWRT on my router. LineageOS on my phones. NextDNS for DNS. Privacy-hardened web browsers. Decrapified, privacy-hardened Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC with a firewall on my computers/laptops. And Bazzite Linux for Steam games.Another benefit is that nobody calls me to try to sell me bullshit and I pretty much never get spam E-mails.
>>82674893>You're a special smart boy if you buy our product!Whoopsie anon looks like you fell for it
