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Originally Posted by Flint
It doesn't force me to buy something, but it's as close to holding a lit match to a can of gas as they've come so far.
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But has it actually worked? I think it's got the allure of making you (and retailers) think it works--I mean it must work, right, because it's so insidious--but have you ever
actually clicked one of those ads and bought the thing you were thinking about buying?
We're all too jaded for ads now. We have plugins to make them disappear on our browsers, and DVRs to skip them on our TVs. The only things that work these days are 1.) ads that are so unusual, they generate buzz as creative works on their own, and 2.) the ads we don't know are ads--news stories and political framing, like you said.