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Yeah, but if you hadn't seen those ads, and not watched those movies, would your life really be worse than it is now? > Consumers aren't going to search for so
by wlll 8y ago
Yeah, but if you hadn't seen those ads, and not watched those movies, would your life really be worse than it is now?
> Consumers aren't going to search for something they don't know exists in the first place
If a consumer doesn't buy something they don't know exists, does it really matter?
Life, at least for me and the people I know, doesn't revolve around finding things to spend money on.
- oliv__ 8y agoThe economy does.
- jadedhacker 8y agoFor now.
- wlll 8y agoPerhaps this is because I'm not an American, but my life doesn't revolve around "supporting the economy". The economy is supported when I go round living my life, not the other way round.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoExactly. Also: free market works well when the aggregated signals from customers are honest. Then it allocates resources efficiently. Advertising is all about disrupting this mechanism, injecting and generating fake signals that skew the market.
- noobiemcfoob 8y agoI've found many useful products that I enjoy using, such as my ReMarkable tablet, through targeted ads. I'd have never known it existed despite looking/waiting for exactly this type of product for years.
- wlll 8y agoPersonally I've bought a total of 0 products from adverts ever (pretty much since ~1999). Adding an ad blocker a few years ago this trend is likely to continue, though now my web pages work better and my privacy is enhanced :)
- tdb7893 8y agoI actually removed my ad blocker recently because I realized most sites I go to either don't have ads or they don't really bother me (hackernews, reddit, facebook, netflix, gmail, stackoverflow, various webcomics, etc...) and they pay for all that free content I consume. My life generally isn't better for the ads themselves but I think it is better for the services that these ad supported sites provide.