Comment by strogonoff
1 month ago
Advertising is the engine of free market. Advertising in Web and apps is used for evil purposes, just like cash (or almost anything else) is also used for evil purposes. Regulation exists to try to minimize those, but it’s always a workaround for human malice.
Maybe it was in days when only broadcast media existed. Now, we have the ability to search for answers to our needs.
Our information paradigm has changed; so should advertising. Let consumers seek out new products, if they wish to.
It hasn’t changed. To know to search for X you must first know X exists.
(If you search for “the best ways to Y” and find an article that tells you about X, congratulations—chances are, you are reading an advertisement.)
That's a weak argument. Stores are not advertisements.
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