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[OT] Selling beer (was: Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names])

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On Tue Jul 13 16:50:38 2021 Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> wrote:

 > On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 21:25:17 +0100
 > Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:
 >
 > (...)
 >
 >> Back when we had TV advertisements
 >> for beer, it was always the rubbish beers that got the publicity.
 >
 > here (Germany) we still have those TV ads for beer, and I can assure
 > you that the advertised brands (its not up to me to decide whether
 > they are rubbish or not) are the ones that are available virtually
 > everywhere, so I believe that it is safe to assume that they are
 > also the brands that sell.
 > So yes, unfortunately at least in some cases advertisements apparently
 > pay.

If they didn't pay, companies would have stopped sinking vast amounts
of effort and expense into them a century ago.

 >> As for 'targetted advertising', I've never seen any. When I notice
 >> the ads around the sides of web pages, none of them are aimed at me
 >
 > The same here. So maybe I have developed some skills obscuring my
 > "profile" to "them", or (maybe more likely) I am just too dumb to
 > realize that those ads *are* in fact targeted at me :-)

If they're targeted at me, I try to make sure they miss.

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[OT] Selling beer (was: Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable  names]) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2021-07-14 17:20 +0200
  Re: [OT] Selling beer (was: Re: Working for free [was: Offensive  variable names]) Christian Groessler <chris@groessler.org> - 2021-07-14 17:50 +0200
    Re: [OT] Selling beer (was: Re: Working for free [was: Offensive  variable names]) Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-07-15 20:30 +0200
  Re: [OT] Selling beer (was: Re: Working for free [was: Offensive  variable names]) Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-07-15 09:00 +0200
    Re: [OT] Selling beer (was: Re: Working for free [was: Offensive  variable names]) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-07-15 09:10 +0200

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