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Companies that use bait-and-switch tactics, ridiculous hidden fees and stupid fine print seem like something of the norm these days. These ones are some of the most unfair and stupid of the bunch. For more deceptive and unfair products, check out these misleading and awful products designed by monsters

Whether it's a lie promoted from a government in wartime, or a company trying to to sell more product, there are some falsehoods people live with that are a direct result of very persuasive marketing. But hey, it's good to learn why we think the things we think. On a lighter note, here are fake facts people believed for WAY too long.

We don't know what a lot of these are. How many of these can you actually guess? That's the real game. Whoever uploaded this gallery back to Imgur was getting some very strange targeted ads...

If you talk about an ad, it was a GOOD ad. Right? So, maybe confused crematorium guy is actually winning, not failing, after all. 

Signs, ads and products that could've used some more thought. Some are weirdly inappropriate, some are creepy as hell. It's weird how people never seem to get better at this stuff. Anyway, we're happy they don't.

He finally ate the mac and cheese! 

Whoever thought selling air and calling it chips deserves to be shot out of a cannon.

It's hard to congratulate them, but these are pretty clever.

Knowing that this stuff is floating around, it's amazing that we ever get anything right.

Hey, if you can't beat 'em, eggs.

It's not unusual for advertising agencies to try to use sexual references to get our attention, but these are on another level.

The Citizens Advertising Takeover Service (CATS) just replaced all of the adverts in a London tube station with pictures of cats. Why? "Wouldn't it be great not to worry about the holiday we can't afford, the car we don't need, or the body we don't have? Imagine a world where public spaces made you feel pawsitive." That's why!