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Advertising Is a Cancer on Society (2019)

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Re: Advertising Is a Cancer on Society (2019)

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Post by keiferski »

In a world of finite attention, some form of advertising will inevitable appear. Unless your critique of advertising includes a solution to the attention problem, it's not useful.

Then you might say, well there should be some regulations that prevent advertisers from doing X bad thing or saying Y exaggerated statement. Most of these exist already, and if they don't, the legislation required to ban such practices would be easier to implement than legislation "banning advertising" writ large, whatever that actually means in practice.

Re: Advertising Is a Cancer on Society (2019)

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Post by alt227 »

colesantiago wrote: post #25

Would 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…

> Solutions to this would be much welcome.

Most forums such as this have a 'mute' button so you can choose not to see certain topics and posts by certain people. Not sure why HN doesnt have this, but it solves your 'problem' of forum posts being 'advertising' whilst at the same time explaining the difference between the two, choice.

EDIT: Oh I see youve edited your post. I wont be changing mine to address your new points. Try to keep a conversation going, stop editing to add points after people have replied.

Re: Advertising Is a Cancer on Society (2019)

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Post by masklinn »

someothherguyy wrote: post #21

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?

> Do cancers typically do good things at their baseline?

Cancers are tissues gone rogue. The original tissue does in fact tend to do “good things”.

There are a few transmissible cancers, but the vast majority of them are your own tissues twisted to only consider their own personal survival and short-term gains at the expense of the rest of the organism.

Re: Advertising Is a Cancer on Society (2019)

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Post by slumberlust »

colesantiago wrote: post #25

Would 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…

One demonstrable solution would be to treat gambling/betting ads like cigarette ads. We have the same age restriction laws for a reason, why is it open season for gambling then?

Re: Advertising Is a Cancer on Society (2019)

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Post by coldtea »

wruza wrote: post #22
sjamaan wrote: post #9

It'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?

any "sharing of experience" whose purpose is in buying a specific product or a ticket or service, it's advertising...
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