Well, I can certainly tell you my snakeoil will improve your skin (I'm not making any medical claims and this isn't FDA approved), but I can't advertise that a new study has found that all people named TeMPoral will die within 10 days unless they buy my vitamin with a 100% cure rate.
I agree with you both about advertising being generally an awful thing that is almost always solely designed to manipulate someone rather than give them information, and that the laws are too lax, but this sort of YOU HAVE A VIRUS advertising would be illegal.
(Then again it's barely any worse than the postal junk mail I get designed to look like a sort of official bank repossession notice trying to get me to buy some scammy insurance...)
I agree with you both about advertising being generally an awful thing that is almost always solely designed to manipulate someone rather than give them information, and that the laws are too lax, but this sort of YOU HAVE A VIRUS advertising would be illegal.
(Then again it's barely any worse than the postal junk mail I get designed to look like a sort of official bank repossession notice trying to get me to buy some scammy insurance...)