Comment on Why aren't advertisers (Microsoft, Facebook, Google) held responsible for allowing scammy adverts?
Treczoks@lemmy.world 9 months agoNobody has the time to thoroughly research EVERY business that wants to buy advertising.
Wrong. Nobody wants to spend the money to do that, because they know they will not be held responsible.
Change the responsibility factor, and the money will be there.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Or, instead of finding that money, they find another way to avoid spending it.
It wouldn’t be long before you only see advertising from large corporations. Love them or hate them, we all know that Walmart is a legit business. A potential, morally superior competitor, that we’ve never heard of may not even get the chance to advertise. The newspaper or TV station doesn’t want to risk getting sued for a scam, so they just refuse service. Walmart keeps playing ads, and nobody ever hears about the store that we never knew we wanted.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 9 months ago
In the one hand though, if only the big corporations can afford ads, blocking them becomes even easier.