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Re:An epidemic of fake influencers and the death of meritocracy by raxxorrax on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @03:22AM (#19612509)
That depends if the ad is just presenting something or the marketeer engages in further "perception management" (I don't know the jargon).

This stuff, buying clicks, lobbying platforms to ban content you don't want to be associated with your product/service because it could distort its "cleanness".

Advertising is needed but there are a lot of valid reasons people don't like them very much.

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Re:An epidemic of fake influencers and the death of meritocracy by kristianc on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @03:26AM (#19612521)
The parent made a pretty blanket statement that marketing is wrong.

There are bad marketers as there are bad programmers, bad lawyers and bad physicians, but we don't jump to 'all programming is bad'.

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Re:An epidemic of fake influencers and the death of meritocracy by raxxorrax on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @04:26AM (#19612770)
Didn't say that all marketing or even the majority is wrong. Just that there are bad practices.
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Re:An epidemic of fake influencers and the death of meritocracy by omginternets on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @06:41AM (#19613316)
Yes, it very much depends. That's precisely the point.
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