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Advertising is an attempt to steer your thoughts in a specific direction for personal gain. Surely you can understand how some people are not okay with that?

• kibwen 5y ago
  In other words, advertising is socially-acceptable corporate-sponsored brainwashing.
• otabdeveloper4 5y ago
  No. Selling a fiction book is also "an attempt to steer your thoughts for personal gain". Advertising is a more specific thing: an implicit social contract where demands on your attention are rewarded with non-monetary bonuses. As such it's a good thing, because a world with no social contract or rewards would be shittier.
  • pnt12 5y ago
    Millions of people installed adblock. When YouTube increased the number of ads, lots of people complained about it. People often complain about TV ads and switch to Netflix. There's no social contract - a company shows ads and gets money, so they do it. Do you really think customers are happy when an ad interrupts their favorite TV show? The answer is no fucking way. You've worked in the business for 17 years so it may cost you to believe it, but it's obvious to everyone else.
    • otabdeveloper4 5y ago
      You misunderstand. If tomorrow interrupting TV shows was banned you'd get 30 minute product placement fake "shows" instead. Imagine the TV show equivalent of autogenerated search spam clickbait. This is probably not what you really want.