This is for people who are autistic, see this meme, and assume it means they're immune. Cause you're not, we're actually an at-risk group overall for manipulation.

Reading this part again so it sticks.

companies even attempting to have a voice in my life piss me off... that's not even starting with ai. I don't care what any company thinks or says, I assume it's a lie and their products are nothing but useless garbage designed to fail in hopes of getting me to Huy some more crap or subscribe to even more useless crap.

Limbic capitalism. The product will make you happy! Do not ask how.

Often reduced to an intuition pump, because if they don't explicitly state why their bullshit is good, they never have to justify it. Someone clicks Order Now and immediately has an immodest orgasm. It communicates absolutely nothing to your rational mind. So there's nothing to defend. Somehow, naked emotional manipulation is completely unprotected.

Was about to say: girlfriend's best friend has the type of autism that makes him socialize with anyone and anyone who approaches him, because he believes in the goodness of all people, and thus can't seem to grasp the concept of ulterior motives. He's afraid of upsetting them if he doesn't engage, which caused issues for him and my girlfriend when they were walking alone in LA one night.

Thankfully nothing came of it, but he just could not understand why my girlfriend did not want to engage with literally every stranger who approached them on the street. The concept of "street smarts" does not exist in his mind. Reading between the lines isn't a thing for him.

they thought they were sneaky with this. they should have tried multiple download buttons, that gets me every time

I've seen quite a few articles like this recently, such as "advertising doesn't work on software developers" and I am equally annoyed by all of them.

Advertising works on EVERYONE.

You are NOT magically immune to it, no matter your profession, or brand of neuro-spicy.

Advertising isn't just about clicking on links. Advertising is when you see an advert for a car dashcam, let's call the brand "VroomCam" and then promptly forget about it. And then a month later you're on a shopping website looking for a new dashcam and you see a "VroomCam" in the listings and think "Oh yeah I heard of that brand, let's check it out"

You don't even remember where you heard of them, but you remember you did hear of them, and so the advertising has done its job.

We all need to be mindful of advertising, and the best way to do that is to defend your eyeballs by making changes to your tech and your life so you don't get exposed to adverts in the first place.

what is a werner?

Self-sufficiency isn't possible anymore in this world.

It never was. No one was ever a farmer and a dentist and a blacksmith and a doctor and a tailor and a carpenter and a hunter and a weaver and a miller and a cobbler and a baker...

Trying to be self-sufficient is a great way to end up dying young of a common easily curable infection, or of starvation.

There’s no time to research every single product, and oftentimes, there isn’t even anything you can research.

There is time if you make it and there are always avenues to research goods you are looking to purchase - if you are feeling inquisitive.

The key is to live a minimal life and to build a different relationship with consumption; focusing on patience and discernment i.e. making informed decisions. Instead of essentially declaring that it's impossible, understand that we can all work to improve our lifestyles and habits - even the smallest steps or bits of progress are valid and worthy of recognition.

sounds like a skill issue if you don't do research before buying products

idk, i'm autistic as all get out and i have a profound repulsion to anything that even smells like gambling has been near it in the past week

Autistic kids vulnerable - perhaps.

Uniquely vulnerable to continuous rapid engagement of gacha gaming? God no. It's bad for all kids, adults too - but they get to make their own informed decisions.

I'll take 10!

That is called reactance.

In psychology, reactance is an unpleasant motivational reaction to offers, persons, rules, regulations, advice, recommendations, information, and messages that are perceived to threaten or eliminate specific behavioral freedoms. Reactance occurs when an individual feels that an agent is attempting to limit their choice of response or range of alternatives.

i will now spend 15 minutes looking up everything related to your company and avoid it all

good old "idk just slap an airplane on it", so many autistic people simply have no choice but to buy it then

Yeah pretty much.

My whole way of describing this:

Autistic people process context, body language, microexpressions, tonal inflections... fonts, color schemes, vocabulary and phrasing...

Autistic people tend to evaluate all elements of communication consciously.

Whereas NTs tend to evaluate a whole lot of that subconsciously.

They just flub over details all the time, do a fast but often innacurate heuristic, which they often are not even aware they are doing, which allows them to generally 'socialize' faster, more rapidly, more easily.

But autistic people tend toward actively processing every detail they can recognize that is presented to them.

So, it is thus harder for an autistic person to start learning all these various possibly relevant details, and make the correct pattern associations, and do the actual interpretive process... but once they actually do figure out how to do this, they tend to notice a lot more details and patterns, a lot more accurately, than most NTs.

You're on Lemmy. Autism confirmed.

This is also how I feel about advertising, especially any that have an audio component. Firefox and uBlock Origin are a lifesaver.

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