• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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      Seriously.

      Marketing is nothing more than convincing people to buy stuff they do not need.

      It is the reason we live in a consumer culture that is fucking up the planet with useless trash.

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        my rule of thumb for buying any product or service is that if it needs paid advertising then it probably isn’t worth it. otherwise I would have heard it independently from somewhere or someone

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          The fact that unsolicited ads predate television and radio is why I despise marketing so much I won’t even shill my own art projects without shame. I don’t care anymore what service I’m taking from you, if it’s worth anything I will subscribe and if its not I will use FOSS because I will look for you, not the other way around.

          And if the only option is a service funded through ads, don’t be surprised when I dump your abusive asses the moment a replacement comes around, like I did when I moved from Google Earth Pro to uMap, or Reddit to Lemmy.

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          If ads are a form of payment, then unsolicited ads are theft

          brilliantly put, love it!!