Company SC656788 is still named ROBERT’); DROP TABLE STUDENTS; LIMITED

Beautiful! Whatever they’re selling, I’m buying!

Those are the kind of people who will always find something to ridicule or complain about, though, so you should never let their hypothetical bitching affect your decisions.

You make some good points, but you’re also overstating the power of captology to the point of sounding paranoid tbh. Pretending that someone who’s aware of it, how it works and its goals is still completely powerless to resist is some misanthropic bullshit that gives some people (aware “consoomers” 🙄) far too little credit and others (the people developing captology and other disgustingly manipulative marketing strategies) far too much.

Is gaslighting and other propaganda, whether by human or technology, much more effective than most people know or are willing to admit? Definitely. Is it the Borg, though? Absolutely not.