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Will an anti advertisement movement ever materialize? (suppo.fi)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/asklemmy@sh.itjust.works
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There are lots of cultural opposition movements online, like against work exploitation, consummerism, car culture, surveillance, intellectual property, etc. I can find communities on lemmy for all those topics. But regarding a more general opposition to advertisements and marketing, other than the occasional person telling others to use adblockers online (what about ads in every day life?), I fail to see organized attempts to challenge advertisements. There is a lot that can be scrutinized. Ethical concerns such as manipulation, lack of consent and just the simple fact your attention is for sale. The effects range from damage to environment, to our mental health, to harming industries themselves, lowering product quality and maintaining monopolies.

OQB @narwhal@lemmy.ml

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[+] 8 points 10 months ago (10 children)
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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    This is a good idea, there's an anti bulldog community, there's a fuck cars community, maybe make a community?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    dbzer0 is a good one for it. I could try to make one.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

    I vote fuck ads.

    It's a little bit derivative but there's a fuck trucks fuck bulldogs I think, fuck AI and like I mentioned before fuck cars. It might actually make it a lot easier to remember.

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    • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    After you start it, trying to get the word out kinda butts heads with the objective, no?

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    [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Well, I can't remember the last time saw one, so I'd say it's doing just fine.

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    • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    The entire world generally runs on a capitalist/free market economy. Free markets rely on advertising. There's no feasible way to remove advertising from the equation without other radical systemic change. Massively increased regulation sounds slightly more feasible, but not if we keep barreling in the direction of oligarchy.

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    [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    !subvertising@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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    [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    They had that in the ussr.

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    [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    With as tech illiterate as normies are, no. It takes a lot of work to try to live ad free today.

    I can help them out as much as I can but its their choice to stay in walled garden social media and use 3 corporate websites on the whole internet, of course theyre going to be spammed with ads

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