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What about us who will never want to see any ads ever in our life? Can these companies force fed them to us and we kind of just accept that?
They already do in public.๐คฎ I'll fight them as long as I can on my own computer though.
Gotta wait till augmented reality becomes a common thing like smartphones so you can use an adblocker software to hide ads to your eyes in public, haha.
I'm dreaming of an ad-free vision technology
That's for the courts to decide. It's difficult to escape modern life though. Also, banning ads completely is a near impossible task IMO. It would be like banning messaging. Nailing down the definition of an ad would always lead to people finding ways around that.
"An ad is a message aiming to sell a product or service" --> define selling, define product, define service. Once those are defined then there'll be a way around that too. "I'm not aiming to sell a product or service, I'm just informing the public that it exists". Where would you go from there? You can't make the act of informing a person of a product's existence a crime: "Hey bro, I bought this new product and -" "OMG, you're such a criminal for telling me about a product".
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