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What If We Made Advertising Illegal? (simone.org)

submitted 2 days ago by sundrei to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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The idea feels like sci-fi because you're so used to it, imagining ads gone feels like asking to outlaw gravity. But humanity had been free of current forms of advertising for 99.9% of its existence. Word-of-mouth and community networks worked just fine. First-party websites and online communities would now improve on that.

The traditional argument pro-advertising—that it provides consumers with necessary information—hasn't been valid for decades.

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[–] Christobootswiththepher@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

So this could be interpreted as ban big advertising from ads?

I think ultimately tightening of ad standards is likely the middle ground. I for one am sick of the blatant bulletin. As an industrial chemist even the freakin chemical companies do it. Like buddy, I'm a chemist, I need to know what it is to use it properly. I have now started running a campaign where if they don't cough up the deets, I (in consultancies) don't recommend the use of their products.