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cogman10yesterday at 9:51 PM1 replyview on HN

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.


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marssaxmantoday at 3:00 AM

Can you give an example of "solicited advertising"? I have never heard of such a thing, and can't imagine what it might be.