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Re:French cities trying to ban public adverts by ljm on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @08:57PM (#21876214)
I wish we had that on the tube in London. Instead, you ride an escalator and see upwards of 20-maybe 30 video ads on the way. And that's before a marketing firm commissions the redesign of a tunnel so an entire stretch of walkway is 100% ad, like a shitty Disney ride. Or you arrive to one of the big terminals and gigantic screens are blasting even more ads at you. This is, of course, after you spend 40+ minutes on a train that has a continual row of adverts placed just above the eye-level of the person sat in front of you.

Then you look at what the older tube stations looked like and they're quite pretty; lots of mosaics and other works of art, each station having a distinctive style. Now it's white tiles, white LED lights, and adverts.

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Re:French cities trying to ban public adverts by jsinai on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @02:57AM (#21877497)
Tube adverts also tend to play on people’s insecurities only making it worse
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Re:French cities trying to ban public adverts by Hallucinaut on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @08:08AM (#21878353)
As someone who is highly susceptible to yawn-contagion (I literally yawned writing that's and again writing this parenthetical) the <redacted-to-not-give-them-exposure> snake oil ads showing the woman yawning are a nightmare for me, but I suspect I'm in a tiny minority
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Re:French cities trying to ban public adverts by ljm on Thursday December 26, 2019 @06:35PM (#21887809)
They're also the only place where you get really verbose ads...so you spend all the time reading their bullshit prose before the next tube arrives.

Half the adverts are basically essays to keep people interested when they can't use their phone.

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Re:French cities trying to ban public adverts by esotericn on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @03:08PM (#21880181)
Right. And IIRC advertising only contributes about 7% of TfL's revenue.

i.e. For about 10p on a bus ticket or 20-30 on a tube ticket it could just be gone.

I made a post just recently about this - unfortunately public transport is lowest common denominator so this can't happen.

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