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Originally Posted by frau kaleun
I guess what I dislike about it is the apparent disregard of the fact that the "service" they are offering involves the deliberate betrayal of a third (and maybe fourth) party's trust, which in today's world could even be life-threatening.
"Hey, are you looking for an even easier way to lie to and cheat on your partner and possibly expose them to a variety of life-altering and potentially fatal diseases? Well, we're here to help!"
I know people have been cheating on each other since the dawn of time, but someone trying to cash in on helping them do it - ugh.
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Exactly my concern.
I mean, of course we have this "dating" advertising everywhere as well; after midnight, almost every single TV-channel stops their regular broadcast and switches to these "dating-shows" with barely clad women, interlaced with similar commercials for all kinds of mobile-phone services. Over the past years it's even become common to see naked breasts, and lately even the more "intimate" parts (it's Holland, after all
). I can tell you that if I ever have children, they won't have TV in their room till their 16-17 (that's the plan, though I doubt I'll hold out that long
). Even the channels that continue their normal broadcast around the clock start airing commercials for phone-apps that are questionable at best (penis-meter, anyone?).
I was very appreciative of these things when I was a teenager though.
*cough*
My point is: this is the first time I've been confronted by spam/advertising that encourages people to betray their partner, and I found it a little disturbing. The line may be thin, but this is clearly crossing it as far as I'm concerned.
