Comment by raynethackery@lemmy.world on Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads

Advertising targeted towards minors needs to be banned.

As with basically everything bad in the US, it’s another reminder that Reagan was a human shitstain.

Your classic 80s cartoons were toy commercials. Candy, toys, cereals started being marketed directly to children.

And I genuinely loved all that stuff as a kid, usually liking the ad (e.g., TMNT cartoon) more than the toys (e.g., TMNT action figures).

As your typical Lemmy user who loves Linux and hates advertisements, I sometimes have to remind myself about that when my son is watching today’s dumb kid shows. Teaching him about the systems in play rather than isolating him from it has been working well IMO.

The bonus is that he doesn’t watch full-on advertisements and commercial breaks like we were forced to in the 80s when it was live TV or no TV.

The bonus is that he doesn’t watch full-on advertisements and commercial breaks like we were forced to in the 80s when it was live TV or no TV.

I think the problem for modern youth is that there’s no way to tell what’s an ad anymore. Scrolling through TikTok or any social media will show you tons of advertisements which are not marked as advertisements.

The mainstream internet is driven by advertising. At least when I was a kid we could step out during the commercial breaks.

I think the problem for modern youth is that there’s no way to tell what’s an ad anymore.

Too true. Fortunately my kid is too young for full blown social media, so I have a few more years to keep teaching him.

Advertising ~~targeted towards minors~~ needs to be banned.

Advertising itself isn’t a bad thing.

No, it’s… it’s pretty bad.

I know one example of advertising that I liked: the creators of Penny Arcade had only advertisements for computer games that they liked. And they made those ads in the same art style as their own comic.

Advertisements are good when they’re an honest endorsement. Any others are inherently deceptive and often invasive.

Some level of advertising is a necessary evil when you’re in a capitalist system because otherwise people have no way to get their products out ti the market. There’s a balance to be struck.

Hell even in other systems advertising is still important for finding out about cool new things even if money no longer exists

If money doesn’t exist how do you pay for the ads?

With poetry, or perhaps a little dance. Dance 🕺

Word of mouth is the most powerful type of advertisement that no one is against.

We all know if every other way of advertising was banned, they’d start paying (or “incentivizing”) millions of people to “do word of mouth” for them.

And then we’ll have those people polluting every online space with unlabeled ads. No thank you.

They can put up signs inside their business windows. That’s plenty. Everything else is a blight.

It’s not 1950 anymore.

They are making billboards illegal in most places. And it’s a pretty awesome improvement I must say.

Oh they had roadside billboards in 1950. And they were a blight back then. Advertising is a cancer.

Extremism is cancer.

This is one of those bizarre Lemmy echo chamber things. I’ve never seen this sentiment that advertising is evil and should be stopped at all costs anywhere else but on Lemmy it’s super common. Idk where it comes from. I get that advertising kind of sucks but it just seems like a weird thing to get so passionate about especially considering how many other things are wrong with the world. Sorry you’re getting downvoted to hell, you’re not crazy, Lemmy is.

fake Internet points don’t matter to me my words stand by themselves

This has been a huge public viewpoint for decades. I think it was Banksy who had the quote about if you force me to view your ad by putting it in a public space then it is mine to do with a I please.

Businesses have to survive, but advertising is insidious and invasive. Could it be regulated? Sure.

That famous Bansky quote is older than Lemmy and is posted all over the Internet. There are cities around that ban all advertisements. There are movements for a ban on ads in public spaces in many cities all around the world. That really has nothing to do with Lemmy

I dont think Bill Hicks is on Lemmy.

It’s the state of advertising tbh. If ads were still of the “Look, here’s a cool product” variety, or even the “Look, here’s people happily using a cool product” kind then the world would probably be a better place. Even targeting isn’t so bad, when it’s broad like “We want businesses to know about our B2B product.”

The evil in modern advertising is the overly specific targeting, the lying, the psychological tricks, and the way they seem to invade every possible space.

Don’t forget about planned obsolescence, and enshittification. Two built in ways to lie to the person being advertised at.

Psych tricks were there since Bernays “torches of freedom” to sucker women into nicotine addiction like the men.

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For anyone that is downvoting this. Go ahead and try to run a business without advertising, let me know how that works out for you.

All ads suck, but ads based on user rather than content go too far.

Advertising should be illegal.

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