Please propose a law or regulation structure for significantly reducing or eliminating advertisements. I'm serious. I fucking hate ads. I just don't have a reasonable or effective way to get rid of them.

Edit: Hey actually I just thought of one! If the consumer is paying for the product, it can't come with ads, including things like product placement or ad reads!

[–] valsa@lemmy.eco.br 90 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In São Paulo, one of the biggest cities of the world, the municipality forbade by law all billboards and building disfiguring 'decorations' some 10 years ago. Since then, the city became much more bearable, aesthetically. Nothing special happened, everybody was happy, except a few bankrupt ads agencies. Maybe, you must be able to imagine that change is possible. However, there is this ideology, Americans seem to be so fond off, that seems to make such things very difficult.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

New Jersey also banned billboards. That one is pretty easy and I vote that we should adopt that policy everywhere. It's much harder to control digital adspace, since you can do things like astroturf campaigns and product placement. Great point though! I like that law.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 29 points 9 months ago

Hey actually I just thought of one! If the consumer is paying for the product, it can’t come with ads, including things like product placement or ad reads!

Smart TV manufacturers: "Impossible!"

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Ban advertising to minors/for products intended for children

Ban ads/branding visible from roadways to prevent distracted driving

[–] tslnox@reddthat.com 2 points 9 months ago

Yes, those two are the most important and shouldn't even be that hard to push. There are many laws that were pushed "to protect the children", we might as well finally make some that actually do protect them.

[–] model_tar_gz@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Serve ads inside the ads. It’s more power efficient—kill two birds with one stone?

[–] CCMan1701A@startrek.website 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's called product placement in a Disney movie

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Didn't go too well with The Marvels lmao

Actually I don't know if there was any product placement in The Marvels because like the rest of the world, I've not seen it either.

[–] redempt@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

ads don't go unless capitalism goes

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

What about this, if you buy a product, you no longer have to watch their ads. Anywhere.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 2 points 9 months ago

Make sending unrequested data like ads and trackers to web clients a crime akin to gaining unrestricted access to computers. No need for a new law, just a new interpretation on an older one.

Most jurisdictions prohibit unauthorized access to computer systems. What if we just say, "running Javascript code that implements functionality not specifically requested by the user is unauthorized tampering".

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago

Got a better one: just ban marketing outright

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Are we all here because somebody “advertised” Lemmy on reddit?

[–] cooopsspace@infosec.pub 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Where does it stop though? Will TV and super bowl still exist?

What about Facebook, the credit bureaus and Twitter? They're all a waste of energy too.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Let's start with this and then we'll do those in order.