Just FYI. For a very long time, strong alcohol ads were banned on TV, and the same with tobacco.

I don't watch regular TV, anymore, so I don't know if it still is in place.

Mentioning "banning advertising" on HN is bound to draw downvotes. A significant number of HN members make money directly, or indirectly, from digital advertising.

It's like walking into a mosque, and demanding they allow drinking.

Won't end well.

In this case, the suggestion of banning advertising is drawing downvotes from me because I see it as politically unrealistic.

At least in my state, there isn’t even a ban on advertising online gambling!! It is quite a stretch to think we could move from there to banning any kind of advertising.

It has nothing to do with the fact that a bunch of HN readers make money from ads. I don’t.