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> There’s a reason why magazines ads are dying and being replaced by personalized ads. Advertising like that is widely inefficient.

Too bad, if your business model can’t make money without breaking laws and harming people’s rights, do you really deserve to stay in business?

> It’s as valid alternative as telling people to use horses instead of cars to reduce CO2 emissions. They both get from point A to B, right?

More like banning formula 1 cars from suburbs. People survived before without personalized ads, what will not survive is making 10-digits of profit every quarter and the associated butchery of our life and institutions in the pursuit of profit.

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> Too bad, if your business model can’t make money without breaking laws and harming people’s rights, do you really deserve to stay in business?

That's not the argument I'm making nor the comment I'm responding to. OP presented non-personalized ads as a viable alternative for their business. It's not. Let's not pretend it is.

It's a totally different conversation from one you try to turn it into.

> More like banning formula 1 cars from suburbs.

It's not, unless there have been F1 cars in every suburb for last decade.

I get it, you hate ads. Great. But that's not what we're talking about.

> It's not, unless there have been F1 cars in every suburb for last decade.

So like banning lead from paint? Wouldn’t someone think of the poor paint makers and landlords?

When you're debating the merits of the law in question, it doesn't seem like a valid defense to say "if they can't do business under the law then that's their fault".

If I say "car dealers can't sell cars that go faster than 10mph and if they go out of business then they shouldn't exist", it's clearly fallacious, and I don't see how this is any different.

It is different. Rules and laws are supposed to make sense, but the one with 10 mph is not. There are limita to 250 kph in Europe and I dont see car dealers going down. Also, for years there are emissions regulators that make life hard for auto makers, but they obey and still sell cars.

A law limiting top speed to 10 mph would have a massive reduction in accidents and fatalities. That makes sense to me.

Anti-car folks will likely disagree with you that 10mph speed limit doesn't make sense.

> Rules and laws are supposed to make sense

Agreed. So why do none of the EU's moronic laws make sense?

Most normal people are happy when they come across a useful product or service as an ad in their Instagram feed. After these laws, that won't be possible anymore for an entire continent of people.

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