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So it’s just “programmatic advertising” that should be banned and not self hosted advertising by an internal sales team?





If I have to seek it out, say a product catalog or a website, it really isn't marketing or advertising.

The "problem" is that everything is vying for our attention because the internet made it vastly cheaper for any random joe blow to force a set of pixels in front of our faces.

That's the distinction. If I can't ignore it, then it shouldn't be legal. Companies should have no right to my attention.


You can ignore it - it’s called an ad blocker.

No, that should be banned as well.



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