What about the ad for your kids' school fundraiser?
Or the ad for a used car that your cousin would love.
Or the poster for the concert at your local community hall.
Or the ad for a used car that your cousin would love.
Or the poster for the concert at your local community hall.
> Or the ad for a used car that your cousin would love. I will actively seek out and research a car.
> Or the poster for the concert at your local community hall. Presumably this physical paper poster doesn't give me malware/AIDS if I look at it or tear off a slip.
My overriding personal objective is to be able to exist without being expected to consume and spend constantly every moment, waking or otherwise. In an ideal world, I should have to give consent to be advertised to, and should be able to operate in public without being bombarded with companies trying to take my money.
We're fully aligned. The original point I was trying to make is that advertising can be done well, in a way that is compatible with this objective. Unfortunately, in many cases they aren't.
> In an ideal world, I should have to give consent to be advertised to
I thought about this a while back, and I think being bombarded with requests for consent is worse than being bombarded with ads. Cookie consent banners convinced me.
> My kids should come home with a flyer for it.
Fliers are ads.
> I will actively seek out and research a car.
Probably in some classified ads.