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Cake day: August 2nd, 2023

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  • You do, and don’t fool yourself that you don’t.

    You probably don’t click on ads, but they stick in your brain. You might see a half-dozen ads for Doritos, and then when you go to the store a week later, you’re slightly more likely to buy Doritos.

    The vast majority of advertising is just getting a brand or an idea into the back of your head so when you’re looking for something in that product category, regardless of it’s a VPN, a web host, a snack food, a car, or whatever, you’re going to have a bias towards what you’ve seen in the past.

    Most of my ad-blocking isn’t to stop myself from buying some herbal supplement/spray tanner combo, it’s to stop myself from being biased by the capitalist propaganda machine.

    I am not immune from advertisements, and neither are you.





  • They’re here, anything pro trump is often downvoted, and most things heavily critical of the Dems are also often downvoted.

    For better or worse, there’s not a lot of right wing stuff that makes it into the positive on votes.

    If you sort new, you’ll see it pop up from time to time.

    It’s hard to tell sometimes, but it certainly feels like some political regimes are trying out dropping propaganda here or there into the conversation. I’m sure most of it is from genuine users, but there are some comments that just look like they’re here to stir up dissent.