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People applaud the lack of commercials because of the advertising industry’s self-inflicted wound of making obnoxious ads. Ads didn’t have to try so hard to be
by makecheck 7y ago
People applaud the lack of commercials because of the advertising industry’s self-inflicted wound of making obnoxious ads.
Ads didn’t have to try so hard to be WAY LOUDER THAN THE SHOW. They didn’t have to be trying to sell obviously-terrible things (“Get StupidDrugName! <happy music> Side effects may include: death”). They didn’t have to subject you to 12 identical copies of the same commercial in one broadcast. They didn’t have to greedily demand an increasing share, to the point of significantly reducing the length of a show. And that’s just TV...web ads have lots of avoidable crap too.
They got greedy, they made ads suck, now people have no use for them.
- r00fus 7y ago> They got greedy, they made ads suck, now people have no use for them. Many figured this was the logical conclusion, absent regulation. Of course, the industry fought the concept of regulation or even self-regulation tooth and nail. So here we are.