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

submitted 4 weeks 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] 30 points 4 weeks ago (14 children)

Oh please yes

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

There used to be a business catalog book called “yellow pages”. Now there are map applications, price comparison sites, customer review sites, and keyword search engines. All of those make advertisements unnecessary.

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