Online advertising is a cancer I would say. When I get an ad mailer I’ll look through pretty much the whole thing, because it’s most likely local businesses and I know just looking won’t come back to bite me in any way.
If they try to deceive me by making the outside look handwritten or using wording like “FINAL NOTICE” then yeah, straight in the trash without a 2nd look. If it’s obviously an ad from the get go I’ll usually give it a skim at least.
Advertising is a cancer.
It is a(and one of the many we suffer from) symptoms of capitalism.
Online advertising is a cancer I would say. When I get an ad mailer I’ll look through pretty much the whole thing, because it’s most likely local businesses and I know just looking won’t come back to bite me in any way.
OTOH, it seems like ~44% of junk mail gets thrown away without ever being opened: https://zerojunkmail.org/environmental-impact
That’s a bunch of environmental destruction and personal annoyances caused, so the label “cancer” seems fair to me.
If they try to deceive me by making the outside look handwritten or using wording like “FINAL NOTICE” then yeah, straight in the trash without a 2nd look. If it’s obviously an ad from the get go I’ll usually give it a skim at least.
OTOH, serving content is not free and something needs to pay the hosting/publishing bills.
The problem IMO is invasive ad serving tech and deceptive ads, which are often both uncurated and deceptive.
Sure, serving content isn’t free. Maybe we don’t need to serve so much damn content then.