• Zier@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    We need laws on how intrusive ads are allowed to be. Advertising is out of control. Personally, whenever I see an ad too many times, I make sure to avoid purchasing that item or anything from that company. You’re trying too hard to sell me junk.

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        2 days 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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          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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            2 days 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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      2 days ago

      “how intrusive” ?

      We need laws to ban any sort of tracking, profile generation, etc.

      Bring back contextual ads. If I’m on a gaming website show me a gaming ad ffs.