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Ads are communication. Are you saying that communication is evil? I regularly see young and naive folks online saying things like "supporting your favorite cre
by bad_user 3y ago
Ads are communication. Are you saying that communication is evil?
I regularly see young and naive folks online saying things like "supporting your favorite creators by buying their product isn't capitalism", or "self-promotion isn't advertising". All that cognitive dissonance must really hurt.
- falcolas 3y agoAds are a subset of all communication. So no, communication as a whole isn’t evil, ads are. No cognitive dissonance required. Nice fallacy though.
- bad_user 3y agoOK, advertising is communication "promoting a person, product, service, event or a job opening". Is that kind of communication evil?
- r00fus 3y agoThis isn't about ads which I doubt we'll ever get rid of. This is about privacy invading targeted ads (which Google enables as the 800lb gorilla ad network). Those are evil and unnecessary (and honestly unclear in terms of efficacy these days). The promise is that Google is some "unimpeachable authority" that preserves your privacy instead of selling you out, when in fact, they are not and they do just that. That the modern web economy is based on this unethical behavior doesn't make it just or even an ideal economy.