• ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    Listen, brown, light green, red, and pink paid for advertising and that matters much more than your search query

    Maybe I’m bad at colors

    Destroy the advertising industry. Burn it alllll down

    • aquafunkalisticbootywhap@lemmy.sdf.org
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      3 days ago

      my favorite thought exercise about advertising:

      “without it, we would have to pay out of pocket for ad supported services!”

      ok but when a company pays for advertising, where are they getting that money from? an added cost on the products we’re buying! so we’re paying for product A, we’re paying extra for product A to pay for product B with advertising spending AND we’re funding product A’s marketing department to make the ads on top of that

      remove the advertising and we would pay less for product A, we could then afford to pay for B directly AND we would all pay less overall because we take ad department employees and costs out of the equation. we’re literally all paying more for everything overall by having some things “free with ads” than if we just paid for everything in the first place with no ads