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how did this happen before advertising?

trade shows, trade magazines, word of mouth, window-dressing in the THING-quarter, ...

why are personalized ads on a website indispensable?

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> why are personalized ads on a website indispensable?

They aren't. This is exactly what I mean by modern advertising.

If ads were just contextual based on the content of the page, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

> If ads were just contextual based on the content of the page, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

I'd still be blocking them, though.

What do you mean before advertising?

There is no before advertising

Pretty sure we have ads from Mesopotamia

Give or take a few hundred years.

Advertising (4000 BCE)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_advertising

Fact-checking is literally just a Google search away. Irony intended.

i know what you're saying, but really now, you know what i mean. some scribbles on a pancard or some fish monger shouting above the crowd, it's not the same as the mass media ads that find you everywhere willingly and unwillingy, 24/7. so before 1900, why not, to make it easy. let's go back there.

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