Advertising Is a Cancer on Society

Re:Advertising Is a Cancer on Society by dwild on Thursday August 01, 2019 @03:11PM (#20587232)

It's like saying maybe with the light off you could have done better navigating through theses rooms. Free learning experiences was available pretty early in my life because of ad suported content.

Maybe I could have done better in something else, who knows, what I do know is more learning experience is ALWAYS better.

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Re:Advertising Is a Cancer on Society by necovek on Friday August 02, 2019 @10:05AM (#20592991)

You are repeating one logical fallacy: the fact that you perused ad-supported "free" content does not mean that there wouldn't be non-ad-supported "free" content without the internet turning into an advertising mess.

I've grew up on the free Internet resources without ads (banner ads just came to be). I've read free books on highly technical topics, on Mathematics...

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Re:Advertising Is a Cancer on Society by dwild on Friday August 02, 2019 @10:50AM (#20593409)

> there wouldn't be non-ad-supported "free" content

I'm not arguing that at all. I was pretty specific saying that the one that provided my learning experience couldn't have done it full time.

There wouldn't be as many learning opportunities. I also consider that I can't expect others to do work for me for free, that's just wrong.

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