Comment on Ad companies are the ones destroying civilization
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 5 days agoI’m not generally disagreeing with your assessment of the current situation, just a little historical BTW.
in the Internet age, we have other, non-advertising ways to spread information (i.e. specs and reviews),
Interesting, I never thought of it that way.
However, most of that is still part of advertising; producers proactively strive to get reviewed.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Reaching out to reviewers is still technically advertising in the broadest definition of the word, but it is distinct from commercial advertising where companies pay to broadcast their specific messages to users.