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Re:Brave: Brendan Eich's clean-ads browser startup by philh on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @12:34PM (#10939759)
> although I like previews, those can stay

Why is an advert for a film that you don't need to see, better than an advert for a product that you don't need to own?

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Re:Brave: Brendan Eich's clean-ads browser startup by chiaro on Thursday January 21, 2016 @12:23AM (#10943514)
It seems like the verisimilitude of the advertising medium to the product makes for the most innocuous marketing. So trailers are a "friendly" way to advertise films, like chapter extracts are friendly ways to advertise fiction books, or a tasting is a friendly way to advertise wine.
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Re:Brave: Brendan Eich's clean-ads browser startup by 6stringmerc on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @03:21PM (#10941032)
...especially when film trailers are highly edited and engineered for the maximum response to manipulate the viewer into wanting to see the film exactly in the way that the OP decries as undesireable!
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