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What If We Made Advertising Illegal? (simone.org)

submitted 1 month ago by sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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The idea feels like sci-fi because you're so used to it, imagining ads gone feels like asking to outlaw gravity. But humanity had been free of current forms of advertising for 99.9% of its existence. Word-of-mouth and community networks worked just fine. First-party websites and online communities would now improve on that.

The traditional argument pro-advertising—that it provides consumers with necessary information—hasn't been valid for decades.

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[–] sommerset 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Tons of companies rely on ad revenue. Netflix, Google etc will go under.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd be willing to pay per use, or donate like Wikipedia.

[–] sommerset 1 points 1 month ago

Don't most companies have exactly that? Ad tier and pay and use without ads

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh NOOOOOO

[–] sommerset 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My point is - they will not allow that to happen.
In order for something like this to take place you would need a full blown communist revolution

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, that's fair. Though Google specifically has lost the plot for sure with the LLM strealing website traffic.