• marcos
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    11 months ago

    Not so fast. The idea that “if companies spend that much, they must have a reason” isn’t any good either.

    Some ads obviously work, some ads obviously don’t work, and most of them aren’t in either of those categories.

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      11 months ago

      Fair point.

      But recently I encountered several people with the opinion that ads don’t ever work on them. And while not all ads work well and some people are more susceptible to them than others, I think very few people if any can claim ads don’t work on them at all.

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        11 months ago

        The only ad that works on me is when steam emails to say a game on my wish list is on sale

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          11 months ago

          Meanwhile to me this is another piece of exasperating spam. My Steam account hasn’t been active in close to a decade but they never stop

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            11 months ago

            Can’t you just disable steam email notifications or unsubscribe from mailing list? You ideally shouldn’t have to login for the later.

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              11 months ago

              To disable, I’d have to login.

              I usually don’t like unsubscribing because it results in more spam. Even legitimate sites seem to sell your “verified email address”. Nowadays everything has a unique generated email so I can turn it off at will, but that was long before I started doing that

              So, laziness, inertia, excuses

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        11 months ago

        Ads don’t work on me CMV

        Though it’s probably because advertisers never promote things I actually want.