Comment on Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads

• RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Advertising itself isn’t a bad thing.

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  • Snowclone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    No, it’s… it’s pretty bad.

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    • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Some level of advertising is a necessary evil when you’re in a capitalist system because otherwise people have no way to get their products out ti the market. There’s a balance to be struck.

      Hell even in other systems advertising is still important for finding out about cool new things even if money no longer exists

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      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        If money doesn’t exist how do you pay for the ads?

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      • Shayeta@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Word of mouth is the most powerful type of advertisement that no one is against.

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    • mcv@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I know one example of advertising that I liked: the creators of Penny Arcade had only advertisements for computer games that they liked. And they made those ads in the same art style as their own comic.

      Advertisements are good when they’re an honest endorsement. Any others are inherently deceptive and often invasive.

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  • markovs_gun@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    This is one of those bizarre Lemmy echo chamber things. I’ve never seen this sentiment that advertising is evil and should be stopped at all costs anywhere else but on Lemmy it’s super common. Idk where it comes from. I get that advertising kind of sucks but it just seems like a weird thing to get so passionate about especially considering how many other things are wrong with the world. Sorry you’re getting downvoted to hell, you’re not crazy, Lemmy is.

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    • RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      fake Internet points don’t matter to me my words stand by themselves

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    • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      This has been a huge public viewpoint for decades. I think it was Banksy who had the quote about if you force me to view your ad by putting it in a public space then it is mine to do with a I please.

      Businesses have to survive, but advertising is insidious and invasive. Could it be regulated? Sure.

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    • brot@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That famous Bansky quote is older than Lemmy and is posted all over the Internet. There are cities around that ban all advertisements. There are movements for a ban on ads in public spaces in many cities all around the world. That really has nothing to do with Lemmy

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    • SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      @markovs_gun @RedditIsDeddit what's lemmy?

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    • Womble@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I dont think Bill Hicks is on Lemmy.

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  • Olhonestjim@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    They can put up signs inside their business windows. That’s plenty. Everything is a blight.

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    • RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’s not 1950 anymore.

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      • Olhonestjim@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Oh they had roadside billboards in 1950. And they were a blight back then. Advertising is a cancer.

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      • Snowclone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        They are making billboards illegal in most places. And it’s a pretty awesome improvement I must say.

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  • pogmommy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    extremely incorrect buzzer sound

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  • psivchaz@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s the state of advertising tbh. If ads were still of the “Look, here’s a cool product” variety, or even the “Look, here’s people happily using a cool product” kind then the world would probably be a better place. Even targeting isn’t so bad, when it’s broad like “We want businesses to know about our B2B product.”

    The evil in modern advertising is the overly specific targeting, the lying, the psychological tricks, and the way they seem to invade every possible space.

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    • MrSelatcia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Don’t forget about planned obsolescence, and enshittification. Two built in ways to lie to the person being advertised at.

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    • RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      This I agree with

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  • RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    For anyone that is downvoting this. Go ahead and try to run a business without advertising, let me know how that works out for you.

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