Do others feel somewhat conflicted talking positively about commercial goods/services? (lemm.ee)

submitted 8 months ago by ALostInquirer@lemm.ee to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

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Sometimes I feel like if I do so I'm basically serving as an ad, and I don't really care for that, especially if later I find that the business was scummy in some ways (which is often the case, especially later as it changes leadership/ownership).

If you do, how do you deal with it?

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[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 15 points 7 months ago

Ads are convincing people to buy something they hadn't considered.

If I'm making a recommendation, it's because I'm sharing it with people who are either asking for a solution, or have the same problem I solved with the product. And not because I own a bunch of their data and inferred what "solutions" I could sell them.

There's a big difference that the thought hadn't ever crossed my mind.

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