What If We Made Advertising Illegal?

Re:What If We Made Advertising Illegal? by echoangle on Saturday April 05, 2025 @02:49PM (#43595780)

I see an ad for the steam deck and think “wow, a portable gaming console allowing me to play computer games while on trips. Very cool!”, but I am not actively googling for gaming consoles every month to see what’s released.

Or movies, basically all movies I went to a cinema for were because the trailers were played as ads somewhere. I’m not actively monitoring movie releases.

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Re:What If We Made Advertising Illegal? by lukev on Saturday April 05, 2025 @07:04PM (#43597526)

Nobody is saying there wouldn't be catalogs and "new release" feeds... they would just have to be dedicated and voluntary and not polluting everything else I'm trying to do.

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Re:What If We Made Advertising Illegal? by ambicapter on Saturday April 05, 2025 @10:10PM (#43598408)

If you go see a movie because of an ad and the movie turns out to be shit, are you glad advertising led you to discover that movie?

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Re:What If We Made Advertising Illegal? by echoangle on Sunday April 06, 2025 @03:07AM (#43599508)

If the ad was misleading, no. But I don’t just go to a movie after seeing an ad, I then look up reviews and other information about it. The ad is just useful to know that the movie exists and is roughly something I would be interested in.

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