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Ads are a plague
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this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2025
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Ok, honest question: In a world where all advertising is banned, how do I know who makes something I want/need?
Like, is a website you find in a search result an ad? Is putting something in your local Yellow Pages an ad?
Maybe we need to qualify "No advertising" with something?
No. If you are actively searching for something, and go to a specific place that sells that thing. It is not advertising, the active party is you not them.
The problem is when the active party is the ad-networks, the trackers, the junk pushers.
If I go to a review site, for say lawn mowers, and they say hey brand 1 is great, but brand 2 is better because of 'reasons'; I am active, engaging in the process. If however, I then go to a site that is about tigers, and brand 3 pushes their ad to intrude on the tiger info....this (in my opinion) is a major intrusion into my private space.
Would you ban television commercials? Sponsored products unrelated to a YouTube video's content?
I completely agree with you. So tired of pushed garbage ads. There's just a gray area so the language of a hypothetical "law" would have to carefully considered.
Yes.
Television ads are a grey area, they don't tend to track you and follow you around in a creepy way.
Sponsored content, is in my opinion very similar to TV ads, the sponsor is the same for all viewer of the vid in a similar way to TV.
They didn't track before the introduction of cable boxes with phone-home capabilities, at any rate.
Ok, dishonest question đ: In a world where all prostitution is banned, how do I know who will fuck me?
Like, is a website you find in a search result prostitution? Is putting something in the personals section an ad?
Maybe we need to qualify "No prostitution" with something?
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Maybe live in a country where prostitution isn't banned?
Seriously asking, is there a country where advertising is banned?
Outdoor advert bans are a thing