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this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2026
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True but at the same time entire businesses are built on advertising and wouldn't exist without it. All your favorite YouTubers, virtually all internet published media, etc.
Don’t forget; sports events. Even the Olympics don’t exist without ads. Adds rule the world (unfortunately). It gets problematic when your privacy gets compromised.
Sporting events existed for thousands of years before advertising—don’t mistake current conditions for necessary ones.
Yeah.. The classical "it has always been like that" when "always" means "in the past 10y". What is 10y compared to the thousands of years we existed as a society?