The idea feels like sci-fi because you’re so used to it, imagining ads gone feels like asking to outlaw gravity. But humanity had been free of current forms of advertising for 99.9% of its existence. Word-of-mouth and community networks worked just fine. First-party websites and online communities would now improve on that.

The traditional argument pro-advertising—that it provides consumers with necessary information—hasn’t been valid for decades.

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    16 days ago

    By telling them, who said you cant? Communication and advertisement are two different things.

    Its crazy that by no advertisement you immediately jumped to you cant tell anyone about anything

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          15 days ago

          And how do you do that en-masse? How do you spread the word to people by word of mouth who haven’t heard of your product/service?