• Chobbes@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    There is potentially a world in which you want to see ads because ads themselves do technically provide a service. You do want to know about things you care about and would want to buy… you just don’t want it obnoxiously shoved into your face all of the time in psychologically manipulative ways.

    • evranch@lemmy.ca
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      6 months ago

      Look at the way ads used to look “back in the day”, with details about the product, its features, and reasons you would actually want to buy it. New tractor model, this many HP, pulls 4 bottom plow, burns this much diesel per hour, buy now and grow more corn.

      However it turned out that it worked better just to try to trick people into buying a product that they didn’t need, and that’s how we got the ads we have today.

      • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        True, but if corporations don’t care to adhere to ethical standards, then the users shouldn’t need to either.

      • Untitled4774@sh.itjust.works
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        6 months ago

        Because a significant amount of our economy and daily life is predicated on filling it with superfluous crap. These ads are just a race for crap de jour.

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      6 months ago

      It would also help if I were served ads that even attempt to approach the vicinity of my own interests. That is vanishingly rare.