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by Wondercool on Tue 12th Mar 2013 13:23 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: PDF version"
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I can't disagree more. The whole idea of advertising is to brainwash you to buy something or to buy a specific brand.

Clearly this brainwashing is working else advertsing would have stopped a very long time ago...

To me it seems that every year humans become more and more a consumer, someone you can sell something to, an economic resource rather than a fellow traveller of life.

I also don't buy into the argument that else 'many sites would disappear as you deprive authors from an income'. Before 2000 most websites including OSNews -still is- were a labour of love, content was good, web design often bad geocity anyone??. After the commercialisation of the net, it's often a dime a dozen.

Just take a look at technology sites: engadget, theverge, ars technica, pocket lint, boy genius report, anand, pcpro uk, wired, slashgear, etc etc.
Now surely they look slightly different and all have a slightly different angle but by large they review the same products. Often their existence is to make money from product announcements by showing (bucket) loads of ads beside the products AND to sell browsing stats to companies (the verge has EIGHT trackers listed by Ghostery).

IMHO it would be extremely welcome if we lose some if not most of these sites, rather sooner than later...

Edited 2013-03-12 13:24 UTC

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