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Re:What If We Made Advertising Illegal? by thfuran on Saturday April 05, 2025 @04:23PM (#43596537)
>What about just restrict it to advertising on the internet?

Why? I don't see the difference between a webpage and the magazine here, except that I guess you're assuming the webpage must be showing an unrelated ad.

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Re:What If We Made Advertising Illegal? by kodt on Saturday April 05, 2025 @06:03PM (#43597171)
Webpages also have the ability to capture far more data about who is viewing the ad, with the use of tracking cookies, browser fingerprinting etc..
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