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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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[–] DisguisedJoker@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Word of mouth and discussions are not the kind of advertising being discussed in the article.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

That would make more sense, maybe the title saying making all advertising illegal is inaccurate then.