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tweakimp 4 hours ago

They can put their information where it can be found easily by people who are interested-

SoftTalker 4 hours ago | parent [-]

That's advertising.

tweakimp 3 hours ago | parent [-]

No, advertising is putting information in peoples faces as much as possible even if they are not interested at all.

cogman10 3 hours ago | parent [-]

It's solicited advertising. Something I don't think almost anyone has a problem with.

Unsolicited advertising is what everyone hates.

If I go onto my grocery store website and see "we have a sale on xyz" I'm not bothered because I went to that website to see what they have. I'm also not bothered by sales displays in the store. All forms of acceptable advertising.

But what I absolutely hate is navigating a webpage unrelated to my store and seeing "Did you know you can buy widgets at your local store!" or watching youtube and seeing an unskippable 30 second ad for my store. Or getting a newspaper that is actually just 90% advertisement with 2 paragraphs of actual news.