• MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        9 hours ago

        Shudders. Shutters are what people used to have in the US to get through the storms. People thought they were cool so a trend spread. Now almost every house has fake ones. Look on the sides of your windows from outside, ever wonder why that shit was screwed in beside the windows?

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      10 hours ago

      Ok, honest question: In a world where all advertising is banned, how do I know who makes something I want/need?

      Like, is a website you find in a search result an ad? Is putting something in your local Yellow Pages an ad?

      Maybe we need to qualify “No advertising” with something?

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        10 hours ago

        No. If you are actively searching for something, and go to a specific place that sells that thing. It is not advertising, the active party is you not them.

        The problem is when the active party is the ad-networks, the trackers, the junk pushers.

        If I go to a review site, for say lawn mowers, and they say hey brand 1 is great, but brand 2 is better because of ‘reasons’; I am active, engaging in the process. If however, I then go to a site that is about tigers, and brand 3 pushes their ad to intrude on the tiger info…this (in my opinion) is a major intrusion into my private space.

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          9 hours ago

          Would you ban television commercials? Sponsored products unrelated to a YouTube video’s content?

          I completely agree with you. So tired of pushed garbage ads. There’s just a gray area so the language of a hypothetical “law” would have to carefully considered.

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            9 hours ago

            Television ads are a grey area, they don’t tend to track you and follow you around in a creepy way.

            Sponsored content, is in my opinion very similar to TV ads, the sponsor is the same for all viewer of the vid in a similar way to TV.