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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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