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Re:Facebook fined €110M for providing misleading information... by JumpCrisscross on Thursday May 18, 2017 @10:45AM (#14367624)
> By driving attention towards their own products, big companies are shifting attention away from more deserving competing products which have a smaller marketing budget

You think small companies would benefit from an advertising ban?

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Re:Facebook fined €110M for providing misleading information... by amelius on Thursday May 18, 2017 @11:32AM (#14368077)
You think not?

Remember that products can still be found through search. If there are no ads, there will probably be better "product discovery" websites to fill the gap if necessary. And of course there are the regular channels, i.e., recommendations by friends, forums, review sites, etc.

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