What If We Made Advertising Illegal?

Re:What If We Made Advertising Illegal? by PebblesRox on Saturday April 05, 2025 @03:37PM (#43596228)

I think the point is that they're opt-in advertising. You didn't pick up a book and find pages from the Sears catalog interspersed with the pages you were trying to read. You picked up the Sears catalog when you were considering a purchase and wanted to see what was available.

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Re:What If We Made Advertising Illegal? by beambot on Saturday April 05, 2025 @04:13PM (#43596471)

When you visit a ad-supported news website, you're opting in too... No one is forcing you to use that website versus it's ad-free subscription alternatives, it's just that most people have decided they'd prefer the former

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Re:What If We Made Advertising Illegal? by wat10000 on Saturday April 05, 2025 @06:33PM (#43597361)

The difference is that a catalog is advertising that the viewer actually wants to see. Ads on a news site are ads that the viewer merely tolerates because they go with the thing they want to see.

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Re:What If We Made Advertising Illegal? by what on Saturday April 05, 2025 @05:41PM (#43597039)

I get various catalogs/flyers/etc interspersed with my physical mail. They just send it to me, I never opted in.

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Re:What If We Made Advertising Illegal? by aezart on Sunday April 06, 2025 @12:52PM (#43602876)

Bulk mail should be banned, yeah.

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