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Re:Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads by watwut on Saturday June 24, 2017 @01:10AM (#14624449)
Ads are not information. They are not factual. Psychological marketing does add at value to me, just like being manipulated in person does not add value to me.
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Re:Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads by rubber_duck on Saturday June 24, 2017 @10:26AM (#14625682)
Like I responded below, psychological marketing effects like branding, exclusivity, etc. have been shown to increase peoples enjoyment of products in multiple studies.

Being manipulated can also add measurable value to you. For example if a doctor gave you a sugar pill for some condition and the placebo effect helped you get better - would you say that it added no value just because the sugar pill physically did nothing ?

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