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Originally Posted by Claude_C
A simple yes or no would also have done the trick. But thanks, I guess.  |
Loads of people not even logged read this wonderful site.
Also advertisers/marketing (crayon dept.) deliberately, or due to being inept, confuse people with misleading names and descriptions.
In many countries the Advertising Standards organisations are funded by advertisers and they are not proactive. They wait for complaints (and people would rather go on a phone-in show). If the advert is found to breach "guidelines" there is rarely any penalty other than "Don't run this advert again". Actual illegal adverts are self-policed by bill-board companies, papers, magazines, radio, cinemas and TV, because they'd be prosecuted. Internet Social Media etc seem to think that neither local laws or Advertising Standards apply to them. Musk calls it "Free Speech".