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> but knowing which products might satisfy it is not automatic.

Would not search + first party description solve that? It’s easy to create a page “you have problem A? Try our product B”.

>>someon+(OP)
Of course it does, but this proposal entails banning search engines, right? I can imagine definitions of "advertising" that don't encompass search, but this author doesn't intend them; he explicitly states that he is not just classifying "paid" advertising of products as advertising but all "third-party" advertising, "full stop", and acknowledges this would make Google "cease to exist" in its "current form". He clearly intends his proposal to include banning search engines, entirely.

>>someon+(OP)
> It’s easy to create a page “you have problem A? Try our product B”.

How is that not advertising?

>>XCabba+Xu
It doesn’t ban search engines, it prevents a company from making money with their search engine through advertising.

>>superf+Ix
Because you’d have to search for and choose to see that page, not being fed a banner/pop up