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Re:Behind the One-Way Mirror: A Dive into the Technology of ... by TeMPOraL on Saturday December 28, 2019 @05:46AM (#21898262)
> Advertising can simply aim to raise awareness of the existence of a product.

Can, but in practice it does not. It's a motte-and-bailey defense. To paraphrase Feynmann, advertising can inform customers about the existence of a product the way sex can produce children - it can, but it's not why anyone does it.

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