Advertising Is a Cancer on Society
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Advertising Is a Cancer on Society
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Re: Advertising Is a Cancer on Society
#2We get rid of it, Google/Facebook/etc. shut down. While social media is of arguable benefits, Google has provided incalculable value to the world. Ads are the magic money fountain that give them the power to organize all of human knowledge, a phenomenal resource anyone can tap.
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#3Maybe some of it...but without any advertising at all it would be really hard to know what products or out there or even that there is a restaurant on the other end of the block.
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#4Maybe some of it...but without any advertising at all it would be really hard to know what products or out there or even that there is a restaurant on the other end of the block.
reducing consumption would be a benefit if you think about it from a climate change angle...
For restaurants, I usually search for them in a directory and not in ads...
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#5No its not. I had to move quickly last week. Needed to find someone who could take some stuff. Remembers the 1800gotjunk commercials. They fixed my problem. I guess I could have used google but without ads google wouldn't exist so...
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#6"Businesses are made of people, and people have ethics. If you're running one, consider the way you advertise. Are you aiming at making mutually beneficial transactions, or are you just trying to milk you users out of their hard-earned cash? Not all advertising is inherently harmful to individuals or society. "
So, some kinds of cancers are OK. It's hard to take this sort of article too seriously when it undermines it's own point so effectively.
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#7Targeted Instagram ads have been very useful to me recently. I just moved apartments, and the ads have been showcasing products that I wouldn’t have otherwise known about.
The argument can be made that maybe I didn’t need these things in the first place. But I want them, it makes me happy, and these ads have saved me time.
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#8This is a dogmatic viewpoint I think often seen in very technical people who are unwilling to see the interconnectedness of how our society works.
I bet there's any number of things this person values that simply wouldn't exist without advertising.
It's a childish and immature opinion really.
Anyone who hates advertising this much should show their commitment by working at an organization that does not advertise. Loathing advertising and at the same time depending on it for income is deeply hypocritical.
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#9Maybe some of it...but without any advertising at all it would be really hard to know what products or out there or even that there is a restaurant on the other end of the block.
reducing consumption would be a benefit if you think about it from a climate change angle... For restaurants, I usually search for them in a directory and not in ads...
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Re: Advertising Is a Cancer on Society
#10Maybe some of it...but without any advertising at all it would be really hard to know what products or out there or even that there is a restaurant on the other end of the block.
reducing consumption would be a benefit if you think about it from a climate change angle... For restaurants, I usually search for them in a directory and not in ads...
That directory is almost invariably funded with money from advertisements