this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2025
1419 points (98.1% liked)

Mildly Interesting

20039 readers
697 users here now

This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.

This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?

Just post some stuff and don't spam.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
marcar@lemmy.world
Jimbabwe@lemmy.ml
WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world
1419
What If We Made Advertising Illegal? (simone.org)
submitted 2 weeks ago by sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
390 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

By telling them, who said you cant? Communication and advertisement are two different things.

Its crazy that by no advertisement you immediately jumped to you cant tell anyone about anything

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

By telling them, who said you cant?

By telling who? And How?

[–] MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Communication isnt advertisement. Depends on the type of business dude. Theres a thing called word of mouth.

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago

And how do you do that en-masse? How do you spread the word to people by word of mouth who haven't heard of your product/service?