Re:Fix your crappy ads and I’ll stop blocking them
by anigbrowl on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @02:04PM
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When I see evidence of the advertising industry working hard to eliminate dark patterns and junk I'll take that argument seriously. Advertising is not a benign or neutral commercial activity, it has huge externalities which most of its proponents prefer to ignore.
Re:Fix your crappy ads and I’ll stop blocking them
by xatan_dank on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @01:58PM
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I'm not at all, because I'm not talking about advertising in general. I'm aware of what advertising is. I'm talking specifically about the same kind of advertising that the article posted is.
Re:Fix your crappy ads and I’ll stop blocking them
by kbenson on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @02:15PM
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You responded to something about advertising in general ("How about when the service can not exist otherwise?") with something about specific negative advertising practices. Regardless of what the article is about, is seems the comment you replied to was talking about advertising in general (and was itself responding to a comment referring to advertising in general).
I don't think we're going to get very far if we aren't talking about the same thing.
You are conflating specific negative aspects of the current advertising landscape with advertising in general.
"Advertising" covers a large spectrum of actions, from the sign above the corner store in a neighborhood saying its name to complex analysis of online behavior, personal traits and current disposition to influence your actions. There are both positive and negative aspects of online and offline advertising. Oversimplification of the description and overly broad statements based on that simplification aren't really useful to a beneficial change.