Reminds me of the bill hicks quote on advertising.
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nonentity@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Advertising needs to become as socially acceptable as smoking.
It arbitrary pollutes any environment it’s conducted in, and causes secondary harms to non-participants by incentivising insecure hoarding of private information with the intent to better target individuals.
aceshigh@lemmy.world 6 days ago
nonentity@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
The sentiment is influenced by many.
Ecen@lemmy.world 6 days ago
While I definitely agree that most advertising these days is terrible, I do wonder how it should be done. How would you market a product you made? I genuinely want to know what you find acceptable.
Say that you invent a new type of ladder that is much more stable than normal ones, or maybe you start 3D printing a very cool figurine that you’ve designed. In either case, you realize you have a product that some people will probably want to buy, if only they knew about it.
You probably won’t go to an ad network, I wouldn’t. But do you make a post about it on Lemmy? That’s advertising. Do you tell your friends about it? Most of them probably don’t need a ladder, but maybe a couple would buy your figurine, though that is unlikely to be enough to kickstart your 3D design company.
RedPandaRaider@feddit.org 6 days ago
I’m sorry to tell you but smoking is completely socially accepted.
demunted@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
Agreed left unchecked it is horrible, on of the darkest pervasive elements of capitalism, used in a manipulative manner. We’ve reached astounding understanding of human psyche and are using that knowledge with advertising to control people’s subconscious. It’s disgusting.