The idea feels like sci-fi because you’re so used to it, imagining ads gone feels like asking to outlaw gravity. But humanity had been free of current forms of advertising for 99.9% of its existence. Word-of-mouth and community networks worked just fine. First-party websites and online communities would now improve on that.
The traditional argument pro-advertising—that it provides consumers with necessary information—hasn’t been valid for decades.
If you need to pay someone to talk about your product, it’s probably not as good as you think.
Lol, ok. Is that why we have had advertisements for thousands of years? Is it because products are worse or is it because someone had more stuff than they could sell by word of mouth?