This analogy seems weak. In general, this post argues one way while ignoring all the good advertising does. Do cancers typically do good things at their baseline?
Advertising Is a Cancer on Society (2019)
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Re: Advertising Is a Cancer on Society (2019)
#22It's weird. Everybody finds ads obnoxious (at least some of the time), yet it's allowed and not only that, it's proliferated in recent years. You'd think something universally disliked would be legislated away. I wish more people would realize the root cause of all this spying is advertising. Simply banning advertising would get rid of all this shit more effectively and with less overreach and compliance headaches th…
How to tell advertising from sharing experiences?
Re: Advertising Is a Cancer on Society (2019)
#23I think the list of reasons sounds a lot like just typical facets of 'capitalism'.
I would rather live with ads than with literal bread lines my family stood in decades ago, in a socialist state (that funnily had more govt propaganda than ads).
How about none of these?
Why do I always need to choose the lesser evil and never good?
Re: Advertising Is a Cancer on Society (2019)
#24It's weird. Everybody finds ads obnoxious (at least some of the time), yet it's allowed and not only that, it's proliferated in recent years. You'd think something universally disliked would be legislated away. I wish more people would realize the root cause of all this spying is advertising. Simply banning advertising would get rid of all this shit more effectively and with less overreach and compliance headaches th…
> You'd think something universally disliked would be legislated away.
Advertising is a core activity of capitalism, which our western governments protect and further at all costs. Until we leave capitalism as a system behind, advertising will keep growing.
Re: Advertising Is a Cancer on Society (2019)
#25Would seeing this on HN count as advertisement?
I also see HN Jobs that I did not ask for, would this also count as advertisements / marketing?
How would say, Daring Fireball [1] earn income from this cancerous mode of operation? Should this publication stop charging $11K a week to stop shilling products we don't need in your RSS feed?
So then it follows that all of these are 'cancer' by the author's definition.
How do we solve this once and for all to satisfy the author?
The only way to stop this would probably be to "close your eyes?" or perhaps maybe adblock, although we cannot adblock billboards, or this isn't really a big enough problem in the first place.
Solutions to this would be much welcome.
Re: Advertising Is a Cancer on Society (2019)
#26This analogy seems weak. In general, this post argues one way while ignoring all the good advertising does. Do cancers typically do good things at their baseline?
"all the good things advertising does" is doing a lot of the leg work without much being specified.
Re: Advertising Is a Cancer on Society (2019)
#27This analogy seems weak. In general, this post argues one way while ignoring all the good advertising does. Do cancers typically do good things at their baseline?
>while ignoring all the good advertising does.
What good?
Re: Advertising Is a Cancer on Society (2019)
#28I fully agree with the sentiment, and yet marvel at the apparent lack of alternatives for so many business models. I'm mildly surprised, for example, that micro-payments for web content are still not a (widespread) thing.
Consumers hate ads, but they hate paying for things even more apparently.
Re: Advertising Is a Cancer on Society (2019)
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#30This analogy seems weak. In general, this post argues one way while ignoring all the good advertising does. Do cancers typically do good things at their baseline?
All the good advertising does? What are you referring to?