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Puffery Vs. Effective Advertising
The reason that "Puffery" differs from deceptive advertising, is that there is no overt attempt to deceive a targeted consumer. "Puffery" are the complaints (like false advertisement) of a product, which is caused my deceptive advertising. is the claiming of the process that points out how advertisements are hiding information from the consumer, which could be a small print on a advertisement, or sometimes it's not even posted on the
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