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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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[–] termaxima@jlai.lu 2 points 2 weeks ago

That’s fair, I think this could be allowed by authorizing those ads to be placed by local cinemas, concert halls, and museums.

That would also mean a film’s marketing has to pay cinemas directly to advertise in-town through them, which would be a source of revenue for them !