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Will an anti advertisement movement ever materialize? (mander.xyz)

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There are lots of cultural opposition movements online, like against work exploitation, consumerism, car culture, surveillance, intellectual property, etc. I can find communities on lemmy for all those topics. But regarding a more general opposition to advertisements and marketing, other than the occasional person telling others to use adblockers online (what about ads in every day life?), I fail to see organized attempts to challenge advertisements. There is a lot that can be scrutinized. Ethical concerns such as manipulation, lack of consent and just the simple fact your attention is for sale. The effects range from damage to environment, to our mental health, to harming industries themselves, lowering product quality and maintaining monopolies.

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[-] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

Adbusters magazine

[-] Raffster@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I have become an advocate not only against ads but for mental integrity as a whole. No more deceitful manipulation of the mind allowed. No more disinformation or dark patterns accepted at all. I know it's naive to think that possible, but why even try if we're not aiming for the perfect utopia?

[-] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

Advertisements are a thing where you can turn them off and basically suffer none of the negative externalities (escaping the tracking is a LOT harder). There's no real reason to form a movement over a basically solved issue.

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[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 0 points 2 weeks ago

Billboards and other physical ads and such suck but are thankfully already mostly illegal where I live.

Problem with other kinds of advertising is that it can't be made illegal, not truly. People would still do it, it would just not be marked as such. I'm not sure how to fix this.

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