“…Persuasion is the core activity of advertisers, and the range of possible and applied forms of affecting recipients' market decisions becomes increasingly diverse [15,[27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35]. It is stimulated by the web environment, its attributes, and the development of ICT (information and communications technology) as well as information and communication apps [16,18,[36][37][38][39][40]. In the theoretical justification of the problem and the research gap's characteristics, we stress mutual relationships between the persuasive function of online advertising, information asymmetry, and consumer behavior manipulation.…”