> My dislike for ads does not come from general disregard for the idea of advertising in the first place, but from the fact that most actual ads are "small e ev

> My dislike for ads does not come from general disregard for the idea of advertising in the first place, but from the fact that most actual ads are "small e evil" - i.e. disingenuous, manipulative, gaudy, appealing to human weaknesses etc. They make the world a worse place. I sadly have to agree with this. I think twitter did a great job of dealing with "small e evil" ads by allowing replies to ads - ads are just promoted tweets, that you can reply to, like other tweets. However, now twitter allows everyone to hide replies to their tweets. I still sometimes see ads on twitter with hostile replies, but that's probably only because they don't understand twitter as a channel, they treat it like any other channel where you don't have to worry about that. If they had someone ready to hide all critical replies that wouldn't happen. I think reddit had a similar model, with promoted posts?