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by manigandham 3070 days ago
You absolutely are manipulated, and without even realizing it. That's how it works, because if you did realize it then you wouldn't be.

People are not rational, they buy on emotions and random facts and influences from friends and folks on the internet. You claim to be the perfect objective consumer who never gets affected but the data (petabytes of it everyday in an industry that's absolutely run by numbers) proves otherwise.