Technology

Even for just adverts, trying to ban all adverts that affect you unconsciously would be a ban on all adverts and marketing. Is that reasonable? I would not say so.

I would. Never in my life has an advert made me buy anything I need.

When you need something, you go and find it. And when it finds you, then it needs you and not vice versa.

When the process is "I identify a need, I look for something matching characteristics I need and then I purchase it", the results are better than it is "I look at something and suddenly have an urge to buy it most likely formed by many adverts seen, heard etc", in the latter situation I usually realize that I didn't need the thing at all.

Thus adverts belong to expositions and catalogues and lists you go and find, and not anywhere else.

Depends on your legal preferences, of course. Most of my life I'm a libertarian, so naturally against banning anything consensual, but also against trademark protection, and abolishing trademark protection would reduce the usefulness of ads.

Or more relevant to today, maybe something around the shear amount of information advertising agency collect on you, IMO that is one of the bigger problems with them these days.

Can't fight that anyway.

Or the shear number of them that you get shoved into every aspect.

I have a better idea - you can be required to watch through ads to get to the page\video\etc you've come for, but don't get stuffed with them in the middle, that becomes illegal. Like those license agreements for software which nobody reads.

IRL that would be - no big unavoidable ads on billboards, but you can come to something like a gazette stand and look through brochures.

The point is that if you look at an advert, you do that consciously, with intention to do just that.

That's even explainable to geriatric lawmakers.

Or putting adverts in products that you have already paid for.

Yes, that's a good idea and an already popular one.