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saulpw on April 5, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: What if we made advertising illegal?

You can always opt-in. Advertising is specifically information that is not requested.

yunohn on April 6, 2025 [–]

You are implicitly requesting it in exchange for free content, is that not obvious?

saulpw on April 6, 2025 | [–]

On a billboard while driving to work?

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