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What If We Made Advertising Illegal? (simone.org)
submitted 4 weeks 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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[–] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It would make promoting new art and events downright difficult.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

What's wrong with making a societal shift where people learn to go out and look for what they want? It's not like you can't have a website with a schedule of all the activities for your ________. And if people want to see or do ________ they can come find out when and where instead of the constant barrage of shit they aren't interested in anyway.

There are better ways.

[–] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

And you know about this website how exactly?

Seriously advertisements have been used for thousands of years because they solve a very real problem namely how do you get people interested in the extra stuff you have?

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You realize searching the web can exist without ads or unfair pay structures ... right??

[–] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works -1 points 4 weeks ago

Ok? How do you know about these websites if you only have word of mouth?

Unfair pay structures have nothing to do with this.