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If I had my way, all unsolicited advertising would be banned. Advertising is an attempt to manipulate people in to buying crap they mostly don't need. It uses
by gnosis 14y ago
If I had my way, all unsolicited advertising would be banned.
Advertising is an attempt to manipulate people in to buying crap they mostly don't need. It uses either outright lies or lies by omission.
Worst of all, advertising is a corrupting influence on our political process, since the news media constantly caters its content to please advertisers and not to upset them with investigative stories in to the very corporations that fund its broadcasts.
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- k2enemy 14y agoIn net, I think I agree with you, but advertising can also serve an informative role. There are times I've seen a well-targeted and unsolicited ad for something I didn't know existed but solved a problem or want that I had. Ads are also important for letting people know about prices, features, etc. The importance of the informative role of advertising is probably decreasing as the internet provides more and more product and price info, but I think it is still there.
- gnosis 14y agoThink of all the thousands if not millions of unsolicited ads you've seen in your life. What percentage of those were for "something you didn't know existed but solved a problem or want that you had"? My guess would be less than 1%. Maybe even less than 0.1%. Many ads don't even have anything to do with the product they're selling. They're designed to get you to get you to associate a positive emotion with the brand name, or be so surreal or catchy that they're memorable. Those ads are worse than useless. They're both useless and manipulative.