Dabur plays with public's lack of knowledge about v/v and w/w to inflate the perceived percentage of alcohol in its hand sanitizer [COMPACTIDEA]

Dabur knows that public doesn't know what v/v and w/w mean. So in Amazon's title, it cleverly says 70% v/v alcohol, making buyer feel like this product is more potent compared to those hand sanitizers which contain "only 60% alcohol", whereas on w/w basis, this Dabur product also contains only 60% alcohol. Clear deception.

Reliance Jio inflates the number of months of validity for its prepaid recharge packs by changing the definition of a month!

So when they boldly write "12 months", you assume a year or 365 days, and you're alright to assume this as a consumer, but in reality it's only 336 days [or a full 29 days less, almost a month less, implying ~11 months], because they've - in small-sized disclaimer print at the bottom - changed the definition of a month! Such nasty tricks go on in the open without bone-breaking fines!

For food products, what's inside the box is usually underwhelming compared to what's highlighted on the packaging [COMPACTIDEA]

Kellogg's Muesli pack shows many large-sized photos of fruits, cereals, and other tempting stuff, but what's shown isn't what's inside. The proportion of the displayed photo that corresponds to dried fruits isn't the same proportion that actually comes out from the box. More like half or maybe just one-quarter in reality. This is fraud going on to fool the public. These private American companies shouldn't be allowed to show something else and sell something that's significantly inferior to what you're advertising. Especially the quantity and proportion of fruits - because fruits are what you're highlighting the most on the box.

TV channels are overlaying various forms of ads, messages directly over the running movie or TV program, thus interrupting the viewing experience [COMPACTIDEA]

We pay for cable TV channels in the form of DTH subscription fee - and additionally we also bear adverts that are played during - sometimes long - commercial breaks. Why then, should we be made to bear with the various forms of additional ads, distractions and messages/notifications that are increasingly being overlayed directly above the ongoing film or TV serial by ever-greedy TV channels?

More nonsense. They're themselves killing their own businesses - this aggressive overlaying will push more and more folks towards streaming-only Web services.

Some airlines, such as Ryanair, have either already renamed or are contemplating renaming their Boeing 737 MAX aircraft to fool their customers [COMPACTIDEA]

You can always count on private companies to do everything possible to fool the general public so that these companies can keep selling more and more - safety and honesty be damned.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jul/15/boeing-737-max-ordered-by-ryanair-undergoes-name-change

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremybogaisky/2019/07/15/ryanair-and-iag-may-be-renaming-the-737-max-but-boeing-says-it-isnt/

https://twitter.com/AeroimagesChris/status/1150602370104975360

Online retail services such as Amazon, Flipkart, etc., in many cases, fool their customers by manipulating list prices, to make discounts look bigger [COMPACTIDEA]

Whatever has been listed in these two articles appears not only deceptive and unethical, but also outright illegal. I have myself observed first-hand some tricks being played by Indian online retail services in order to fool the public. For example, if something was selling for INR 349 yesterday, and today you mark it down by just 1 INR [now INR 348] and label a flashy-looking "Deal of the day" tag on it, that's technically okay but practically useless and also unethical. Changing list prices, however, is altogether another level of fraud.

American companies keep repeating that health, privacy, safety, etc., are their first priorities even when it has been demonstrated that they're lying [COMPACTIDEA]

Typical of all/most large US giants. It's like business schools and MBAs have sort of force-fed them that you must always keep repeating sentences such as "Safety is at the heart of everything we do", or "Customer privacy is always our first priority", etc., even when faced with undeniable evidence that you're lying and that money and profits are your only/primary goals. Every press release, every public statement, etc., must always include such standard lines.

A good example is the currently ongoing Boeing 737 Max fiasco. Even when several of Boeing's deliberately money-driven design decisions have been exposed [decisions which reduced safety and Boeing knew that these decisions reduced safety], Boeing executives continue to parrot the aforementioned fake statements.