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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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[–] sommerset@thelemmy.club 0 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Tons of companies rely on ad revenue. Netflix, Google etc will go under.

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[–] Ibaudia@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Advertising is too big of an industry to ever be banned. It also keeps lots of other sectors on life support, like sports and free online content. It's also extremely important to keep services like search engines free. Unless we transition away from capitalism ads are pretty much mandatory to keep the economy afloat. I agree they suck though. uBlock Origin until I die.

[–] daepicgamerbro69@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

then you would have illegal advertising edit: people giving down votes as if i am wrong. lmaoing @ u all

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