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Re:What I learnt roasting 200 landing pages by risyachka on Thursday May 13, 2021 @08:21AM (#27141273)
Why would it be?

There is nothing sinister in it. Probably 100% of people do the same in every day conversations in one or another way without even noticing.

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Re:What I learnt roasting 200 landing pages by michaelt on Thursday May 13, 2021 @12:34PM (#27144174)
Well, a lot of beauty products sell themselves by making people feel ugly, security products by making people feel fearful, and so on.

Some people find that perilously close to breaking someone's window then charging them to fix it.

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Re:What I learnt roasting 200 landing pages by Sohcahtoa82 on Thursday May 13, 2021 @03:14PM (#27146122)
> security products by making people feel fearful

People should be fearful. The lack of fear is allowing people and corporations to get hacked everywhere.

Though I work in cybersecurity (though not for a cybersecurity company), so I may be a bit biased.

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Re:What I learnt roasting 200 landing pages by risyachka on Friday May 14, 2021 @03:00AM (#27151554)
They don't make people feel anything, all they do is show some pretty picture and a people do the rest themselves.

Should pretty images be considered shady marketing because of this? Probably no.

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