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As someone who uses ad blockers, almost every time i buy something. If i want something, I'll find it. I don't need marketing vermin telling me what I should want based on who gave them money. I also hate ads enough that i specifically avoid buying anything for which i have seen or heard an advertisement.
You go to the store with your eyes closed and pick at random I assume? Product packaging is advertising.
I'd say technically it is just product labeling, since I'm not forced to interact with between TV shows or games. Have you seen the NoName brand?
Also I regularly go to an Indian Grocery where packages are plain and I can't read the language, I spend a few bucks and get a good or bad surprise LOL.
Yeah this is advertising. It's very distinct and clear; done intentionally to stand out amongst other products and be appealing to disinterested consumers.
That's branding.
Advertising would be "best pumpkin pie filling, everyone's choice" on the label. Also if you go to their no frills store its all this.
Right so companies put branding on their products to... not advertise themselves to consumers?
I go by this definition. Marketing is branding and advertisements.
lol no. Branding is not advertising just like getting smacked in the face isn't domestic abuse unless the context is correct.
Nope. Advertising is based on paying a third party. The company didn't pay someone else to show you that packaging when you didn't ask for it.
No it's not, Toyota putting Toyota badges on their cars is advertising.
No.
Did you even read the definition?
Yep. And, like a sensible user of language, I recognised that it could be stretched to include your odd definition, but chose to stay with the combination of what was written in the dictionary and what is the common-use definition because the rest of the English-speaking world is under no obligation to stretch out the definition to help you. Everyone knows what ads are. Only a particularly obtuse user of language would call 'an intrusive video, put in front of you for the benefit of other people and the detriment of society' and 'a label of manufacturer of the object you are currently looking at, being used as an identifier' the same thing. They don't look alike. They don't serve the same purposes. One interacts with them in different ways. Only in the idiosyncratic space of marketing theory would one call them the same.
You're coping so hard rn
Are you going to present some evidence of where I have made a mistake in my reasoning or just 'cope' by pretending to have some insight into my mental state that invalidates the points I made in order to avoid acknowledging you were wrong?
You're actually crying
I wish you well, kid, but goodbye.
Sunsofold wept
You're good at projection.
How pathetic.
Projecting my feelings onto others like brands project ads onto packaging