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Re:What If We Made Advertising Illegal? by sdeframond on Sunday April 06, 2025 @05:31PM (#43605130)
> In my country, advertising alcohol is forbidden. Somehow I still manage to find interesting new beers to try year after year

This is interesting. Alcohol companies a well known to bypass this prohibition by all possible means (product placement, influencers,...) and yet I find real benefits in it. It would possibly be similar if advertising was forbidden for everything

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Re:What If We Made Advertising Illegal? by vjk800 on Monday April 07, 2025 @02:17AM (#43608370)
They probably do some sort of promotion targeted to the retailers. I don't know and don't really even care. All I know is that I don't see any beer ads on TV, outside, or anywhere else really, and I wouldn't mind if the same was true for everything.
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Re:What If We Made Advertising Illegal? by sdeframond on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @05:48PM (#43638392)
Yep. Same goes for drugs in France. Advertising to the general pumicbis forbidden but you still find ads in press targeted to GPs.

Still, I believe we are better off like this than if those ads were allowed everywhere.

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