Well, it seems to be official now. Starting April 14, 2025 Google will update its Unfair advantage policy to say it is allowed to show the same ad, from the same company, going to the same page, as long as the ad is in a different ad location. Google was just experimenting with double serving ads earlier and now it is officially going to be allowed.
You do not see the scope of the way advertising ruins our society.
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Essentially everything you think of as propaganda is just applying advertising methods and societal structures for political purposes.
In my city there is a public vote planned for an ad free cityscape and all of a sudden i see adverts claiming that only adverts keep stuff like Soup kitchens or other charities in the publics focus and how good ads are in public space. It’s a goddamn disease
Oh yeah, completely forgot to list the destruction of aesthetically pleasing views with public advertising boards and the waste of lifetime spent on watching ads in my list.
Edit: also loss of life from depression and inferiority complexes caused by unrealistic life and body image goals in advertising
Don’t forget light pollution that wrecks peoples and animals biorythms
Light pollution makes me so sad. You have to get so far away from cities to not have the all encompassing glow of the cities to not affect your view of the sky.
I’ve been contemplating the effects of a constitutional amendment to ban all forms of paid advertisements for physical and digital and Im only able to think of YouTube being shut down but that’s alright by me
That’s parasitic behaviour in the nut shell.
Deny the parasitic trash engagement and profit.