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> The relationship between advertisers and consumers is inherently adversarial That is naive thinking. Advertising exists to reduce friction in the market. I'm
by henryfjordan 7y ago
> The relationship between advertisers and consumers is inherently adversarial
That is naive thinking. Advertising exists to reduce friction in the market. I'm a lot more likely to buy something if I know it exists. I won't go to the movies unless I've seen a trailer, for instance.
Maybe installing an adblocker doesn't super negatively impact your life but if we completely stop advertising as a practice then spending would slow and all of our lives would be worse off.
- liability 7y agoYou may very well go to a movie theater and have a bad experience because an advertiser took a movie they knew was awful and made an appealing trailer for it. The advertiser is just as willing to persuade you to see a bad movie as a good one. They aren't operating in your interest. Far from negatively impacting your life at all, blocking ads significantly improves it. Try it out yourself. I think you'll find that through various interactions with the general public, people who aren't paid to lie about products or services, you still find out about movies worth watching.