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Do you think Google is proud of this work, do you think the people working on double serving ads feel pride in their ‘experimentations’. In their personal time and at the end of their lives will they be happy they took things people liked and made them worse, even unusable for their money. That their only contribution was to scrawl their mess over that of others. Do they cling to the idea that it makes delivery free at the point of use as they make far more from their low practices than they from would honest subscriptions. Are they glad that their living makes the world more mundane. Happy to mar the endeavours of humanity, and as we push into space and maybe meet other intelligences ours will be the only ships with ads for toilet rolls on the outside. And throughout all of this shame the kicker is we would buy toilet rolls anyway.

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taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
You do not see the scope of the way advertising ruins our society.

We have

a world-wide surveillance and profiling network collecting data about everyone for advertising purposes that is beyond the wildest dreams of authoritarian regimes

ruining our planet’s climate through advertising efforts by the fossil fuel and automotive industries among others

ruining our health through advertising efforts by the tobacco, alcohol, sugar and similar industries

destroying our systems of government through advertising efforts for political causes and for populist candidates

keeping our population divided by using advertising methods to spread wedge issues

destroying genuine grass-roots causes and spreading astroturfing to hinder popular movements, unions,…

Essentially everything you think of as propaganda is just applying advertising methods and societal structures for political purposes.
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- MaggiWuerze@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  destroying genuine grass-roots causes and spreading astroturfing to hinder popular movements, unions,…
  
  In my city there is a public vote planned for an ad free cityscape and all of a sudden i see adverts claiming that only adverts keep stuff like Soup kitchens or other charities in the publics focus and how good ads are in public space. It’s a goddamn disease
  
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  - taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Oh yeah, completely forgot to list the destruction of aesthetically pleasing views with public advertising boards and the waste of lifetime spent on watching ads in my list.
    
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    MaggiWuerze@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Don’t forget light pollution that wrecks with peoples and animals biorythms
    
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- Zirconium@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’ve been contemplating the effects of a constitutional amendment to ban all forms of paid advertisements for physical and digital and Im only able to think of YouTube being shut down but that’s alright by me
  
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Pulptastic@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The number goes up if you know what I mean.

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