Comment by drawkward
21 days ago
>advertisement is the engine of free market
Repeating something ad nauseam does not make it true.
Advertising is just attempted demand generation for otherwise weak product offerings, a ploy to exploit human psychology by appealing to needs to be part of an in group, desire for sexual appeal. It is exploitative and harmful to its viewers.
Hows that for a claim?
> Advertising is just attempted demand generation for otherwise weak product offerings
Just like money is just a vehicle for abuse and fraud.
Advertising is disseminating information about a product. The rest is you describing how advertising is abused, which I already addressed in my first comment. Yes, it is also used for malicious and abusive purposes, just like everything else is also used for malicious and abusive purposes.
If we talk about things that can be used for bad stuff, how about we start with E2EE comms and cash. The amount of evil, abuse, violence that they directly enable simply drowns out any potential downside of ads.
I guess either you want to ban it all, in which case there is no more argument to be had, or you can acknowledge that the world is not black and white and something that can be used for evil can also be a crucial part of an ecosystem.