No. Ads are not bad. Ads for products that suck are, which is to say 90% of products and something like 99.99% of ads (really great products only need ads if they are in areas that are not normally talked about, e.g tampons).
Ads for products that don't matter to me are noise and annoying.
We should actively work toward rewarding people who create stuff that solves problems, but right now nobody has a better way to get the word out there than using ads.
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No. Ads are not bad. Ads for products that suck are, which is to say 90% of products and something like 99.99% of ads (really great products only need ads if they are in areas that are not normally talked about, e.g tampons).
Ads for products that don't matter to me are noise and annoying.
We should actively work toward rewarding people who create stuff that solves problems, but right now nobody has a better way to get the word out there than using ads.