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

submitted 3 months 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] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh please yes

Put a 100% stop to advertising but also marketing altogether.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How do you propose new businesses will work? Genuinely looking for discussion.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

However that would work, i dont care. Open source software has next to no marketing and I've found it all through chat groups, etc.

I've found my local super market and bakery simply by walking by

I buy toothpaste by trying a few and sticking by one I like

I never watch commercials, I don't do advertising or marketing, and I'm missing out on nothing