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

submitted 1 day 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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[–] AugustWest@lemm.ee 0 points 1 day ago

I was really suprised to see downvotes for your comment. It was balanced and demonstrated nuance for the concept.

We have an example of an advertisement from 3000 BCE. This is part of the human condition of transfer of information with a hey I make a cool thing, interested in buying it?

Now as for Lemmy, I hope it doesn't get completely bad like reddit. The worse offenders are political or ideological posts like this one.

I am still have good discussions in other areas, so here's hoping.

I miss the old internet too.