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Re:Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising? by PeterStuer on Monday March 23, 2020 @08:34AM (#22663419)
There are effective bans on advertising for certain products, e.g. cigarettes, in large parts of the globe.
Re:Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising? by ghaff on Monday March 23, 2020 @09:03AM (#22663688)
Which are acceptable because people generally (in many places), are fine with discouraging, or certainly not promoting, the use of tobacco products (and some other product categories) even though they're legal. This is not true with the usage and purchase of most other legal products.
Re:Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising? by mLuby on Monday March 23, 2020 @10:27AM (#22664393)
The irony is that, as with anti-smoking, massive ad campaigns would be necessary to convince the citizenry to favor a ban on ads. Time for "the ad to end all ads?"