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What If We Made Advertising Illegal? (simone.org)

submitted 2 months ago by sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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The idea feels like sci-fi because you're so used to it, imagining ads gone feels like asking to outlaw gravity. But humanity had been free of current forms of advertising for 99.9% of its existence. Word-of-mouth and community networks worked just fine. First-party websites and online communities would now improve on that.

The traditional argument pro-advertising—that it provides consumers with necessary information—hasn't been valid for decades.

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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not being sophisticated, I'm trying to keep you on track.

If you want to have a different argument about whether or not advertising is deserving of jail sentences, steep GDPR level fines, slaps on the wrist, or nothing, that's fine, we can have that one.

But this reply chain was about whether or not it's possible to make advertising illegal, which it is.