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What HN community is saying
The thread pivots from the article's inaccessibility to a broader debate on marketing ethics. Top comments note tobacco companies' involvement in food processing and criticize their application of addiction-engineering tactics. The center of gravity splits between those viewing this as categorically worse than ordinary marketing (due to health externalities and psychological manipulation) and those arguing it is indistinguishable from standard product design and brand-building. One commenter notes that Facebook's public ads library shows insecurity-focused advertising is less common than assumed, though others counter that emotional manipulation (community, togetherness, FOMO) operates subtly. A dispute emerges over nutrition science: some dismiss "ultra-processed" as meaningless jargon; others defend basic nutritional guidance (eat food, mostly plants, not too much) as sound despite complexity.
What HN community is saying
The thread pivots from the article's inaccessibility to a broader debate on marketing ethics. Top comments note tobacco companies' involvement in food processing and criticize their application of addiction-engineering tactics. The center of gravity splits between those viewing this as categorically worse than ordinary marketing (due to health externalities and psychological manipulation) and those arguing it is indistinguishable from standard product design and brand-building. One commenter notes that Facebook's public ads library shows insecurity-focused advertising is less common than assumed, though others counter that emotional manipulation (community, togetherness, FOMO) operates subtly. A dispute emerges over nutrition science: some dismiss "ultra-processed" as meaningless jargon; others defend basic nutritional guidance (eat food, mostly plants, not too much) as sound despite complexity.