All advertising is harmful, a complete ad ban would be wonderful, very hard to enforce thought.
this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2023
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The only good advertising is honest word of mouth from buyer to buyer. No marketing team involved
I disagree with this. If a new shop comes out, how are they supposed to get word-of-mouth over the bigger, more shopped at shop, even if it is better? People will stick with what they know, and the new shop will die. Maybe this is a naïve perspective, but that's how I am thinking here.
Good point. Some degree of marketing should be allowed for small companies
Honestly let's just ban all advertising, except for maybe small signs.
Eu should stop the chat control
What does that even mean though? Like if I put an advert in a right-wing newspaper vs a left-wing one am I targeting my advertising? What about if I put it in a trade magazine?
Besides, given that I will have to see some adverts unless I want to pay for absolutely everything (and people are often able to purchase ad-free versions in the current system) I'd rather see ads for stuff I'm actually interested in.