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> If advertising were illegal then how do people find out about products? Can you really not think of any way?
by Y_Y 8y ago
> If advertising were illegal then how do people find out about products?
Can you really not think of any way?
- ekianjo 8y agoSpreading awareness is essential when you want to sell anything. This happens since the dawn of human society in the street when shopkeepers call out passersbys to sell their wares. What other means do you have?
- nitrogen 8y agoImpartial organizations (maybe like Consumer Reports?), providing dispassionate listings of products and product categories for a fixed listing fee to evaluate the claims made by a product.
- ekianjo 8y agoThey can never hope to test all products out there. There are more products available every day than they have manpower to test. And even their tests are biased in their own ways. There is no objective measure to test everything.
- anoncake 8y agoThey could if we reallocated the resources currently wasted on advertising to them.
- Kaiyou 8y agoJust making a good product people actually have use for. I can't think of a single useful thing I own that I've disovered via someone advertising to me.
- ekianjo 8y agoWhen you have literally billions of products out there, there is no way one can make a new product and have it sell without doing any form of advertising or sales activities. Plus, what is true for you is not true for just everyone out there.
- Kaiyou 8y agoI'm mostly talking about the kind of ads an adblocker can take care of. Those are the ones I'd like to be outlawed, anyway. Oh, and the ones people stuff into my mail box, despite a clear label to not do such a thing. And the ones plastered all around the city on big boards. Basically everything that is annyoing.
- saagarjha 8y agoNot under a stringent definition of “advertising”.