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

submitted 1 week 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] 2 points 1 week ago

Well it's hard to imagine a world without advertising and just speculation, but there are a lot of videos on youtube and articles about new products. And stuff that is interesting would get upvotes, get shared and be trending. Of course there would need to be a different monetization scheme for youtubers.