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What If We Made Advertising Illegal? (simone.org)
submitted 2 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 -4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

Unfair pay structures have nothing to do with this.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Are you dense? Just look them up lol