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2015-05-18 00:47:27
To be clear, I mean active advertising, in the sense of placing product
information out of context. That includes billboards, products in movies,
commercials between songs or before movies, and most of the crap that shows up
in the mail. I don't have an issue with passive advertising, for instance
having "the special of the day" on an e-commerce site, or related product
information such as offering me different vehicles if I am visiting a vehicle
sales site.
Active advertising is literally coercion, enticing, manipulating, and
encouraging a viewer to make purchases that they otherwise do not wish to make.
"If only you knew about our great product" does not justify the psychological
arm-twisting advertisers undertake. Yes, by the end of your advert I might
"want" your product that I'd never heard of, but as the OP says, "fuck you".
You are taking money out of my pocket that I did not plan to allow its removal.
In some circles, that's theft.