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[–] marcos@lemmy.world 39 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] RQG@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] dessimbelackis@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 8 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

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

Ads don't work on me CMV

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