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Re:Brave Passes 10M Monthly Active Users, Sees 19% Growth Si... by anewvillager on Friday December 06, 2019 @10:03PM (#21728195)
> The printing press, radio and TV always had ads

This is not true. Pervasive advertising is far from a natural state of media and is actually an extremely recent innovation.

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Re:Brave Passes 10M Monthly Active Users, Sees 19% Growth Si... by arkitaip on Friday December 06, 2019 @11:48PM (#21728532)
TV programming is the USA was pretty much created when advertisers realized the potential of the medium yet understood that no one would watch ads non-stop, which is why the had talk shows, tv series, game shows, etc made. The first TV ad - for Bulova watches - dates back to 1941, just two years after the first TV sets were sold to the public at the 1939 World's Fair.
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Re:Brave Passes 10M Monthly Active Users, Sees 19% Growth Si... by rswail on Saturday December 07, 2019 @03:19AM (#21729135)
The reason soap operas are called that is because they sold soap.
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Re:Brave Passes 10M Monthly Active Users, Sees 19% Growth Si... by cookie_monsta on Friday December 06, 2019 @11:37PM (#21728494)
Yes - it only really caught on when the Egyptians started putting it on papyrus
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