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Facebook reported fake numbers to advertisers

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618 points elorant | 1 comments | 19 Feb 21 14:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.225s | source
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Razengan ◴[19 Feb 21 15:56 UTC] No.26194434[source]▶
To me the whole advertising racket has always seemed like a case of an emperor with no clothes. Has anyone here ever made a purchase that was influenced solely by an ad, or known any common folk who did?
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1. davidivadavid ◴[19 Feb 21 16:04 UTC] No.26194524[source]▶
If by "solely by an ad" you mean the kind of scenario where you once saw a single display ad on the side of a website, picked up your phone and your credit card and ordered something — that's not how advertising works.

But if you've heard of something like QVC, or have an approximate idea of the revenue generated by the advertising industry and the humility to think all of their customers can't be wrong, you should be able to dispose of the notion that you're pushing here.

Yeah, some people waste money on advertising. For some others, it's a money printing machine. Shrug