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Brandwashed

Education — Tricks Companies Use to Persuade Us to Buy [Books]
Educationest. 2017
→ Redirected
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 16.0 · 1/4
16.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
18
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
3
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

The recorded URL now redirects offsite — often an acquisition, rebrand, or wind-down; the destination is recorded in the telemetry below. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
18 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 18 probesavg response 1289 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
amazon.com
edge
direct origin
server
Server
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Brandwashed's listed URL redirected off its original domain (to https://www.amazon.com/Brandwashed-Tricks-Companies-Manipulate-Persuade/dp/0385531737/ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=SV2E2XF2ZQBGNCD9ZVDX&linkCode=sl1&tag=mopwest-20&linkId=be5339aedcdf0544efba79959c2df3f6) when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026 — we mark it redirected, not dead. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 3 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Dataclysmeducationsimilar100%40.00.0● live
No Place to Hideeducationsimilar100%41.00.0● live
The Allianceeducationsimilar100%40.0+32.0● live
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse #1)entertainmenttag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
Ghost In The Wiresothertag-overlap100%40.0+4.8● live
Wild Rideeducationsimilar100%40.00.0● live
The Village Effecteducationsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Cooleducationsimilar100%40.00.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierunknown
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-24 14:00Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer1586redirected_offsite
2026-08-17 13:42Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer1236redirected_offsite
2026-08-09 19:36Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer1657redirected_offsite
2026-08-08 04:41Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer1259redirected_offsite
2026-07-31 15:39Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer1028redirected_offsite
2026-07-26 17:33Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer1364redirected_offsite
2026-07-18 14:17Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer1429redirected_offsite
2026-07-13 14:05Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer1414redirected_offsite
2026-07-04 16:12Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer1506redirected_offsite
2026-07-03 00:50Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer485redirected_offsite
2026-06-24 13:47Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer674redirected_offsite
2026-06-23 12:58Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer1458redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 21:17Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer1287redirected_offsite
2026-06-20 19:23Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer1663redirected_offsite
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Brandwashed · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/brandwashed · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.