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In my experience nearly every decent product ive ever wanted I either sought out myself first or found through word-of-mouth, almost none of it through marketing materials which these days I completely disregard because it is 99.99% bullshit. And I believe word-of-mouth would be even more effective and useful if mass advertising simply didn't exist to pollute peoples thoughts and preferences with a bunch of deceptive marketing garbage. I firmly believe over 99% of marketing could be easily replaced by simple word-of-mouth if it wasn't drowned out by marketing materials and advertisements.





Agreed. If anything, excessive ads are an indication of a product whose design or implementation was neglected because it's easier to paper over the deficit with ads.



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