Published on: 2025-05-09 17:23:02
What if, rather than banning advertising outright, we taxed it instead? Photo by Jo San Diego on Unsplash [ED: This is one that I’ve been ruminating on for a while. I have a lot of thoughts about a post-advertising/post-algo-driven-feed world. Ping me if this kind of thing interests you. I’d love to chat: 0/5 hats.] What If We Taxed Advertising? I recently read “What If We Made Advertising Illegal?“ at Simone.org (which generated considerable HackerNews discussion). It makes a bold case: adv
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