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

submitted 3 days 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 2 days ago (5 children)

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

[–] explodicle 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd be willing to pay per use, or donate like Wikipedia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Don't most companies have exactly that? Ad tier and pay and use without ads

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