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The Troubling Future of Advertising

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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The Dark Side of Credit Card Consolidation

The dark side of this is taking advantage of people who are not maybe in the best financial situation by sending, like, a shady credit card consolidation offer. But there's another front. Here, you're on linkton social mediam, a friend, a colleague, some one you don't know super well, a messages you about a real equal opportunity or a sale. It's clearly a person talking to you about it. This happens all the time in general. And when it does, it's called word of mouth. Word of mouth is the nuclear option in terms of effectiveness in advertising. What happens when that person at the petza place was incentivized to casually advertise something to you

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