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I like how you brought up all of those examples for means of discovery. However, I think that almost all of those are a form of advertising. Perhaps the forum w

I like how you brought up all of those examples for means of discovery. However, I think that almost all of those are a form of advertising. Perhaps the forum where people are giving advice would not be advertising. If any of these are on the internet, then people there will be pixel trackers, and people are going to measure the distinct number of impressions. I don't think this is a bad thing.

coldtea 8y ago
>I like how you brought up all of those examples for means of discovery. However, I think that almost all of those are a form of advertising If we stretch the notion of advertising to mean "anything that can bring something to one's attention", then yes. In that case I'm making explicit that by "advertising" in my first comment I referred not to these things, but to what's colloquially referred to as "advertising" -- namely paid tv ads, paid banners, sponsored posts on Facebook, and so on. Not user forums, not legitimate reviews etc. >If any of these are on the internet, then people there will be pixel trackers, and people are going to measure the distinct number of impressions. I don't think this is a bad thing Well, I don't think "measuring the distinct number of impressions" in those kind of websites is a bad thing either. What I said I consider bad is advertisements, that is getting money from a business for pitching THEIR message (as opposed to objective facts or a reviewer's/user's subjective review), selling your users' private info to them or using it to target them with ads, etc. Let's imagine for a moment that it was made illegal for a content producer or social website etc to take money, in any kind of form, directly or indirectly, from any product maker, or anyone selling something (that is, no selling ads themselves, and no being paid to show ads). What would remain on the web to discover products would be all the above I've described.

coldtea 8y ago

>I like how you brought up all of those examples for means of discovery. However, I think that almost all of those are a form of advertising If we stretch the notion of advertising to mean "anything that can bring something to one's attention", then yes. In that case I'm making explicit that by "advertising" in my first comment I referred not to these things, but to what's colloquially referred to as "advertising" -- namely paid tv ads, paid banners, sponsored posts on Facebook, and so on. Not user forums, not legitimate reviews etc. >If any of these are on the internet, then people there will be pixel trackers, and people are going to measure the distinct number of impressions. I don't think this is a bad thing Well, I don't think "measuring the distinct number of impressions" in those kind of websites is a bad thing either. What I said I consider bad is advertisements, that is getting money from a business for pitching THEIR message (as opposed to objective facts or a reviewer's/user's subjective review), selling your users' private info to them or using it to target them with ads, etc. Let's imagine for a moment that it was made illegal for a content producer or social website etc to take money, in any kind of form, directly or indirectly, from any product maker, or anyone selling something (that is, no selling ads themselves, and no being paid to show ads). What would remain on the web to discover products would be all the above I've described.