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Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads (futurism.com)
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[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

This is one of those bizarre Lemmy echo chamber things. I've never seen this sentiment that advertising is evil and should be stopped at all costs anywhere else but on Lemmy it's super common. Idk where it comes from. I get that advertising kind of sucks but it just seems like a weird thing to get so passionate about especially considering how many other things are wrong with the world. Sorry you're getting downvoted to hell, you're not crazy, Lemmy is.

[–] brot@feddit.org 2 points 1 hour ago

That famous Bansky quote is older than Lemmy and is posted all over the Internet. There are cities around that ban all advertisements. There are movements for a ban on ads in public spaces in many cities all around the world. That really has nothing to do with Lemmy

[–] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

fake Internet points don't matter to me my words stand by themselves

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

This has been a huge public viewpoint for decades. I think it was Banksy who had the quote about if you force me to view your ad by putting it in a public space then it is mine to do with a I please.

Businesses have to survive, but advertising is insidious and invasive. Could it be regulated? Sure.