• nonentity
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    2 days ago

    Advertising needs to become as socially acceptable as smoking.

    It pollutes any environment it’s conducted in, and causes secondary harms to non-participants by incentivising insecure hoarding of PII.

    • Doug Holland@lemmy.worldOPM
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      2 days ago

      PII: Personal Identifiable Information, presumably. A new acronym to me, but needed, thanks.

      Advertising, even without PII, is blasting people with brain worms. I abhor it, always have. It’s been 60+ years and I can still remember every word of the Winston jingle from TV ads. I was just a kid, but there’s no way to evict it from my head.

      Lemmy and the tiniest personal blogs are the only media you can consume that doesn’t blast brain worms.