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In a lot of countries in the EU, advertising for tobaco products, prescription medication, lawyer/docts are prohibited. That ban has been working quite well for
by littlecranky67 8mo ago
In a lot of countries in the EU, advertising for tobaco products, prescription medication, lawyer/docts are prohibited. That ban has been working quite well for decades.
- onion2k 8mo agoThis is true, but it's worth adding that there are no blog posts about those things either, or articles, discussions, etc except in very limited niche places dedicated to talking about them. If there was a ban on 'internet advertising of anything' then it would basically kill all discussion of any products on the internet.
- littlecranky67 8mo agoIt wouldn't, we in Germany have clear laws when you have to mark something in media as "advertisment" - it is whenever you received a "reward" in order to talk about something, you have to mark it. A reward is already when you receive a product for free, or get reimbursed for travel cost etc. It is clearly definable. Yes, we will never reach 100% success rate, but 95% is already a big step.
- xiconfjs 8mo agoLike what the internet was before advertising? ;)
- onion2k 8mo agoTim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web in 1992. Doubleclick started in 1995. So yes, like those glorious 3 years when hardly anyone was online and most access was via a 28kbps modem. I'd take adverts over that. :)
- ndriscoll 8mo agoPaid blogs/articles are worse than nothing. They are anti-information. If you did successfully eliminate those things, the currently niche places with honest discussion would be easier to find.
- ferngodfather 8mo agoHow have you managed to take an example of where this worked and then proceed to entirely disapply it in a wider context?
- baxtr 8mo agoIn the US, sport teams usually don’t have sponsors on their jerseys. In the EU they do have every inch covered.