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Re:AdTech Sucks by anoncake on Friday June 07, 2019 @12:06PM (#20125986)
> One thing you might want to think about: What role do the businesses that benefit from advertising revenue play. You're looking at advertising from the perspective of advertisers pushing themselves into your life, but have you asked yourself how they got that billboard onto the football stadium, that video in front of your favorite show, that page in your newspaper (whether digital or print).

That money comes out of the pocket of customers. Without advertising, products would be cheaper because their producers would not have to spend money on adverts.

> Advertisement is literally as old as civilization.

So? That doesn't make it any less despicable.

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Re:AdTech Sucks by afiori on Friday June 07, 2019 @01:08PM (#20126661)
> Without advertising, products would be cheaper because their producers would not have to spend money on adverts.

At the beginning the money comes from the product owner, who without any visibility will not have (as many) costumers

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Re:AdTech Sucks by anoncake on Friday June 07, 2019 @03:43PM (#20127902)
If people need a product, they will find it. If they want to know about more products they might find useful, they will inform themselves — hopefully using a neutral source whose interests are aligned with theirs. Not from an advertiser which is interested in making them buy whatever garbage their customer wants to sell. Which does not educate and inform customers, enabling to make good decisions, but to manipulate them.
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