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1. cracki+dh[view] [source] 2025-12-06 11:27:55
>>hliyan+(OP)
Time to ban all adverts everywhere. I'm not the only one who is fed up with ads.

I don't see ads, thanks to ad blocking tech in browsers and smartphones. Any time that happens to fail and I get to endure an ad, I am amazed that regular people without ad blocking tech can endure this onslaught.

The time to negotiate a "middle ground" is long past. Let's not even entertain that idea.

An acceptable middle ground could have been designated areas for ads, which you have to seek out to see them. Think of the Yellow Pages.

Ad companies need to be reined in. They cannot control themselves. They are lobbying against all limits and controls. The only solution is to eradicate ads entirely and to make sure that anyone who gets that idea will never get it again.

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2. hidden+Jz[view] [source] 2025-12-06 14:32:04
>>cracki+dh
I thought you were being sarcastic at the start.

Vermont bans billboards on high ways. It's so nice.

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3. babyme+N11[view] [source] 2025-12-06 18:20:52
>>hidden+Jz
My parents were architects and my sister and I lived our first few years in Honolulu before moving to the SF Bay Area. There were no billboards in Hawaii, and I recall distinctly the first drive from SFO the the East Bay. I was unable to avoid reading and staring at every billboard next to the freeway and it literally made me throw up. I didn't understand what was happening.

Of course, I was quickly conditioned off of that response to billboards, which I consider natural.

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