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Re:There are no acceptable ads by charlesism on Sunday December 11, 2016 @06:33PM (#13154195) 

    > What happened with the idea that ads were a means you had to get to know useful products?
The internet.

    > If all ads were banned forever from existence, how would anyone discover anything new?
What would happen for existing categories of products is "pull" instead of "push." And if it's an entirely new product category, word of mouth and news articles.
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Re:There are no acceptable ads by baddox on Sunday December 11, 2016 @06:37PM (#13154226)
Exactly. I don't think the author of this article would be opposed to googling [0] "best microwaves" and finding articles from sites like wirecutter [1] or even articles written by manufacturers about why their microwaves are the best.

[0] Okay, maybe not Google, but a hypothetical search engine with a different business model

[1] They may not like wirecutter's affiliate links either

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