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

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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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[–] masterspace 2 points 12 hours ago

It seems really easy. You ban companies from paying for product placement.

If someone talks about it organically they can.

There's no grey area there.