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Re:Ask HN: What will it take to destroy the ads market? by dusted on Monday March 14, 2022 @09:37AM (#30672253)
I have a dream of commercials being strongly regulated and packaged the same way cigarettes is in some countries.

An unappealing grey background, a representative, unedited, in-situ photograph of the product along with a text describing the name and specifications of the product, maybe along with some state-appointed announcer who neutrally reads the text.

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Re:Ask HN: What will it take to destroy the ads market? by nonrandomstring on Monday March 14, 2022 @12:22PM (#30674344)
Like it! Or maybe the view as through Hoffman glasses in "They Live", where every ad is reduced to a singular essential word, its naked psychological truth.

   Obey.   Covet.   Fear.
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