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A personal recommendation isn't advertising. An impersonal recommendation is. As to the ShowHN posts, blogs, tweets etc, you actually choose to read the first
by Intermernet 11y ago
A personal recommendation isn't advertising.
An impersonal recommendation is.
As to the ShowHN posts, blogs, tweets etc, you actually choose to read the first two, and If I was on Twitter and someone I followed kept advertising at me, I'd stop following them.
The point being argued here is that advertising agencies have, for quite a while, felt that they can push ads at you without you choosing to be advertised at.
- rvense 11y agoAds are impersonal and unsolicited. I think the last point is key. Someone flogging their site here is a grey area, of course, but HN is a community and there are guidelines and policies and ultimately it still feels like it belongs to the people who use it. There are many places in my daily life where I have to go that feel more and more like they belong to advertisers (commerce) instead of the people who live there. At least on the web you can block the ads.