Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

So some advertising is ok, while the vast majority of online advertising today falls into the bad category? I think I could agree that advertising is acceptable if we'd have:

* No personalisation * Full transparency (must be publicly available who is paying for this, ...) * No brainwashing, lies, propaganda, ... * No advertising of certain controversial things (alcohol, tabacco,... I don't know who'd define what's ok)

Since we have basically no restrictions today on what is allowed, I'll still use ad blocker, advice everyone to do the same. And of course I'll rant how ads are bad on the internet.



> So some advertising is ok, while the vast majority of online advertising today falls into the bad category?

I have no idea, it's an extremely complicated problem, especially considering trade-offs between privacy and competition.

> No advertising of certain controversial things (alcohol, tabacco,... I don't know who'd define what's ok)

That last bit is the kicker ;).




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: