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There does not need to be a specific mechanism:

Advertising industry erodes the privacy of Ethyl Smith.

Bingo Card Creator supports and is supported by the advertising industry (and, in particular, corporations which encourage the erosion of privacy).

Every individual can easily excuse themselves from this process by saying there is no direct link between their own commercial effort and privacy erosion, and it's very easy to ethically justify what you individually are doing. After all, no single person or entity is literally saying or thinking "let's screw Ethyl Smith".

Personally speaking, I no longer find this a very good excuse.

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If you are against advertising, how do you cease the intrinsic and instinctive self-advertising of human beings?

The study, published in the Journal of Basic and Applied Psychology, found that 60 percent of people had lied at least once during the 10-minute conversation, saying an average of 2.92 inaccurate things.

I assume you do not find yourself very excusable.

Read what you wrote: are you talking about advertising, or are you talking about lying?

Whenever advertising is lying, there is no question I am against advertising.

OP >> 90 to 99% of ads deceive and manipulate people into consuming a product

This thread has been characterised with the opinion from people like yourself that advertising is immoral, akin to lying, manipulative, deceiving etc etc <insert descriptor>.

My point stands - advertising is just an extension of social interaction. If you hate advertising, you essentially hate yourself since you advertise continually.

Ah, I see that you are ignoring and misrepresenting the point that I made. Good for you.

Anyway, to respond to your point:

I do not welcome advertising as an extension of social interaction, no more than I welcome someone shouting at me in the street as an extension of social interaction.

Not misrepresenting anything. You are just incapable of accepting that advertising has a place in a market economy and that across society human beings are hard-wired to advertise, even if just using body language.

You have somehow compared this to shouting at you. Whether you welcome advertising or not you do do it. Arguing against advertising is like arguing against breathing.

Carry on downvoting me; I care a little above 0 about my karma score. It just shows me that advertising detractors cannot form a coherent justification for their views.

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