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.
I would like meaningful regulation on advertising. Something to the effect of “STOP BLASTING MY FACE WITH ADS EVERY CHANCE YOU GET YOU SCUMFUCKERS”
There is a gas station nearby who runs non-stop unmutable (there is no mute button) ads. I don’t go to that gas station anymore.
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Somebody went around my town and busted over 200 of those over a weekend.
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Idk
I only remember because there were two gas stations by my house and one of them you could not get gas at all because it was an all electronic system but the other one still had the manual handles you could flip up and the pumps still worked when they turned it on inside even without the screen
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If you push the second button down on the right-hand side, it’ll usually mute them, even if it isn’t labelled to indicate that.
Nope.
When I said “unmutable”, I meant it. I tried all of the buttons, the screen itself, and even looked for a hidden control or something. Nothing. It was playing ads when I arrived, it played ads while I filled up, and it continued playing ads when I left.
The only reason I didn’t just outright leave in the first place was because I was running on fumes.