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The war on ads is like the war on drugs. This is just going to create more ruthless ad cartels. There is a demand to be met, it will find its way to the consume
by orblivion 10y ago
The war on ads is like the war on drugs. This is just going to create more ruthless ad cartels. There is a demand to be met, it will find its way to the consumer, even if it has to plow over 50 others in the process.
The question is, what is the online ad equivalent of legalizing drugs?
- ouid 10y agoin what way, except for the grammatical structure of the phrase, is the war on ads similar to the war on drugs?
- orblivion 10y agoAs I alluded to, in both cases, there's a demand to be met, and there's a strong social resistance to having that demand to be met. Advertisers annoy 99.9% of us, but there's the 0.1% that demand something that they don't yet know about. There's money to be made, and satisfaction to be had, if only the connection of knowledge could be made. So I'm saying, perhaps instead of thinking in terms of blocking the knowledge, which will tend to get there one way or another, I wonder if there's a solution in terms of finding a less disruptive way to get the knowledge there. It would make advertising less lucrative.
- ouid 10y agoyou're not making your case very well, these are still superficial parallels.
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