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

submitted 2 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] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you push the second button down on the right-hand side, it'll usually mute them, even if it isn't labelled to indicate that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Nope.

When I said "unmutable", I meant it. I tried all of the buttons, the screen itself, and even looked for a hidden control or something. Nothing. It was playing ads when I arrived, it played ads while I filled up, and it continued playing ads when I left.

The only reason I didn't just outright leave in the first place was because I was running on fumes.