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Re:Researchers find inverse correlation between advertising ... by manigandham on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:15AM (#22065897)
Advertisers are just companies and people doing the advertising, and they're only trying to tell you about their product (which helps you in it's intended function).

Where did you get this requirement that they must help you with your entire shopping comparison? Why would they do that for free? It's your responsibility to learn about what you need and make the decision that's best for you.

Also there's plenty of marketing that does help, for example the entire field of content marketing where educational and informative content is posted with a minor sponsor mention.

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Re:Researchers find inverse correlation between advertising ... by kerkeslager on Thursday January 16, 2020 @12:57PM (#22067043)
> Where did you get this requirement that they must help you with your entire shopping comparison? Why would they do that for free? It's your responsibility to learn about what you need and make the decision that's best for you.

Agreed.

The problem is that on this thread there are a bunch of people trying to say that advertising is helping customers.

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