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What If We Made Advertising Illegal? (simone.org)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I was listing out the costs of advertising broadly (that's a big one for me), but not every cost applies to every instance. I think my point works just as well without that proviso, though.

I'm curious, where do you stand on the worth it / not worth it question?