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Are you opposed to having ads plastered on the insides of public transit vehicles?
by criddell 4y ago
Are you opposed to having ads plastered on the insides of public transit vehicles?
- bumby 4y agoThat's a good counterpoint, but to play devils advocate online ads seem to degrade user experience more than a static advert. Seeing a printed ad on the side of a bus doesn't make more hassle or slow me from getting from Point-A to Point-B while online pop-ups do.
- blooalien 4y agoDo those ads at all block/interfere with my ability to ride the bus/train? Do they use up (steal) my (artificially) limited public transit mileage (bandwidth/data-cap)? Do those ads track my bus/train trip and sell that info to other transit businesses? There's a pretty significant difference between those passive ads one sees (or ignores) on a bus or train and the sort of constant abusive behaviors we see from Internet advertisers.
- dontlaugh 4y agoI am.
- bombcar 4y agoI’d rather they didn’t exist and I feel public transit shouldn’t be dependent on the whims of advertisers.
- coin 4y agoThey operate at a loss so every extra dollar counts
- criddell 4y agoThe police also operate at a loss. Perhaps we should put ads on police cars?
- npteljes 4y agoExcellent as thought experiment: "L.P.D.: Libertarian Police Department" https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertarian-police-department https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertari...
- airstrike 4y agoDon't give 'em any ideas, please...
- WesolyKubeczek 4y agoAlso: “We’ll continue our interview after you watch these ads.” (Straps the suspect to a chair in a Clockwork Orange fashion) “No! Not that! Not ads! Let me just admit to everything, sir!”
- vineyardmike 4y ago…and we should absolutely not demand government operate for profit in any branch.
- airstrike 4y agoI am, actually. I absolutely love what the Clean City law did to Sao Paulo