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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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[–] sommerset@thelemmy.club 0 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Tons of companies rely on ad revenue. Netflix, Google etc will go under.

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[–] turnip@lemm.ee 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'd support a ban on advertising in public spaces, but in digital spaces its a bit nonsense given it funds a lot of things people then dont need to pay for.

[–] Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 0 points 6 months ago

Word of mouth works for someone with an already established customer base but I can't even imagine how I could have gotten my business going when I started a year ago without ads. That's how 99% of my customers found out about me. This is physical flyers though - I don't do online advertising except for maintaining a some kind of social media presence for my business.

[–] opsecisbasedonwhat@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's necessary for monopoly capitalism to induce demand. It's part of the planned economy.

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

You know there’s advertising in every single form of sociopolitical government, right?

Communism has advertising. As does socialism.

[–] daepicgamerbro69@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

then you would have illegal advertising edit: people giving down votes as if i am wrong. lmaoing @ u all

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