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You are not immune to marketing (or to propaganda in general). The more you become at ease with that fact, the better equipped you will be to deal with the deluge of shit that is coming for all of us.
As I said in another reply, I worked in marketing for a long time, so I have first-hand experience that most others here don't. Many have a rather narrow definition of what they're willing to label "advertising" and don't realize how much is actually happening all around them. I'm applying a blanket label because the blanket is covering all of us, even those who fervently deny it and insist that it's simply warm and cozy wherever they are.
Everyone arguing with this account needs to realize that they might as well be talking to an LLM. Look at how advertisers think:
https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell-021109.pdf
Just like an LLM can't distinguish between truth and fiction they can't distinguish between meaningful information and advertising BS. The people here will never win their argument against them because they classify all human communication as an act of manipulation, so the definition of advertising will be made more and more broad until they says "look, you were swayed".
Excuse me but "it" is not my preferred pronoun. That's pretty disrespectful.
I was trying to resolve the ambiguity between "this account" (which is indeed an object) and "the people here".
I try not to misgender, so I have edited it to "they". Not because I respect anything an advertiser says though.