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>While internet advertising is incredibly powerful and very effective for commercial advertisers, that power brings significant risks to politics,

It's kind of horrifying that one can make such a statement, acknowledging the dangers of advertising, but still insinuating that commercial advertising somehow isn't dangerous and harmful, just the political ads...



Ultimately, advertising runs the internet, so it's not at all a trivial thing to denounce advertising.

And precisely for that reason, it is dangerous ;)


All ads are adversarial.

Whenever you see an ad, remember that they've diverted funds from improving the quality of their product and paying their workers well, and instead decided to use that money to try to deceive and manipulate the public into forming a positive impression.




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