Comment on [from 2020] Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising?

• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have a problem with those signs, they’re pollution of a public space.

  I remember when Sao Paolo banned all outdoor advertising and their city became beautiful again.

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  • adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    i used to live near a suburb that banned billboards as well as ‘great signs’ (the big and usually tall lit-up signs for businesses) over a certain height (they all had to be fairly short and set back from the roadways). there was also no overhead telephone or power lines there. everywhere should be like that.

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  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This seems to be mainly about billboards. I’m talking mainly about a sign on your door that explains what your business is. I hadn’t initially thought of this as a form of advertising but it technically is.

    I’d be open to discussing a broader ban but my current thinking is that this very basic type of advertising which is primarily informational may be do more good than harm.

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ah gotcha, yeah, the sign on the door shouldn’t be banned, I agree. That might get confusing if nothing is labelled past an address.

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  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Smartphones at present are small surveillance devices vaguely dressed up as a tool. That medicine is far worse then the disease.

    Las Vegas wouldn’t be the same without all the lights. Where I live there’s a limit to one moderately-sized sandwich board, and I quite like it. Somewhere else they might want totally bare streets. All could be accommodated.

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Smartphones at present are small surveillance devices vaguely dressed up as a tool.

      You know, surveillance of those devices is a choice, right? And what industry wants to surveil those devices the most? Oh yeah, fuck me, it’s MARKETING!

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      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I did say “at present”.

        You can install LineageOS and run it in airplane mode, it’s true, although that itself is slowly getting more difficult as everything gets app-ified.

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