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The best concert I ever saw was one I only knew was in town because of an ad. My interests align with advertisers to an extent. I do want to know what products
by add-sub-mul-div 2y ago
The best concert I ever saw was one I only knew was in town because of an ad.
My interests align with advertisers to an extent. I do want to know what products are out there. I'm an adult, I won't forget that their descriptions of their products are biased.
Surveillance advertising is a bad thing, but it doesn't help to take the most extremist position possible. Advertising is information, and it's not difficult to use that information to your benefit.
- n_plus_1_acc 2y agoBillboard ads don't yell as you at least. They are like two orders of magnitute less annoying than video ads
- drawkward 2y agoI follow the bands I care about seeing. There are other, less intrusive modalities for communication than advertising.
- realusername 2y agoThat kind of old-school vision of advertising is a vision from the 80s, it's been a long time that advertising isn't about information anymore. The big spenders are in the game for brand awareness (there's not even a product being shown sometimes) and then there's a parallel world of which I would call scams which went on top of it (less than half of the Youtube ads I see look legal) If you remove those two, I'm not sure how long the advertising industry would survive.