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As far as I am concerned, we can prohibit advertising altogether and replace it with independent reviews.
by danbruc 6y ago
As far as I am concerned, we can prohibit advertising altogether and replace it with independent reviews.
- junippor 6y agoNot sure if you're trolling or genuinely don't know how this works.
- danbruc 6y agoI am serious. A bit exaggerated but essentially you pay someone to lie to you. And that does not sound like something I would want to support.
- endymi0n 6y agoPlease, no. Advertising is like drugs: There‘s always a demand, and if it‘s not satisfied legally and transparently, it will find a way through other means. I already can’t trust most influencers or any other "independent" reviewers. Pushing ad dollars into prohibition will make the problem much worse than it already is.
- danbruc 6y agoThere‘s always a demand [...] Maybe I am out of touch with reality but it seems to me that there is mostly a demand, or maybe better a desire, to advertise something while I do not think that there is the same demand or desire to consume those advertisements. But all kind of media will happily take some of those advertising dollars and force the ads onto us, whether online, on paper, on TV, or billboards. And people don't complain because they get stuff cheaper or even for free, or so they think.
- tremon 6y agoAdvertising is like drugs: There‘s always a demand, and if it‘s not satisfied legally and transparently, it will find a way through other means If by that you mean that we should incarcerate influencers like we do drug traffickers, I'm all for it!
- dekken_ 6y agoAmen to that
- dekken_ 6y agoNo, Advertising is propaganda. Period.
- TuringTest 6y agoI wouldn't mind some targeted advertising. If it were contained in a single place, to visit whenever I wanted to. Double gain if it would eliminate tracked advertising on the rest of the internet.
- jfk13 6y agoI wonder who'd fund that, and how we'd ensure independence?
- danbruc 6y agoHere in Germany we have Stiftung Warentest [1] and it is financed by selling their reports as magazines and online. They also receive some government support from the consumer protection ministry. Not sure if there are any competitors, Stiftung Warentest is certainly by far the most well known one. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiftung_Warentest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiftung_Warentest
- jakub_g 6y agoThere's a similar thing in France called "60 Millions de consommateurs": https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&u=https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/60_Millions_de_consommateurs https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&u=https:/... which is great, but I think DE and FR are way ahead compared to other countries in that area. Edit: also in UK there's "Which?": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Which%3F https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Which%3F
- jfk13 6y agoYes, I'm aware of Which? -- my parents used to get it when I was growing up. It was only ever able to cover a tiny part of the market for a few selected things, though. (And of course only a small minority of people would ever see it.) I'm not sure how well that would scale.
- shin_lao 6y agoYou will have a very hard time to define what is advertising and what's not. How can a business tell you about its existence?
- matheusmoreira 6y agoThat would be an utopia indeed. Advertising suffers from a massive conflict of interest. People would be much better served by independent third parties evaluating products and publishing the results. We just gotta make sure they aren't corrupted.
- mdpopescu 6y agoAfter that, we can also make sure politicians are honest and children are well-behaved.