The idea feels like sci-fi because you’re so used to it, imagining ads gone feels like asking to outlaw gravity. But humanity had been free of current forms of advertising for 99.9% of its existence. Word-of-mouth and community networks worked just fine. First-party websites and online communities would now improve on that.
The traditional argument pro-advertising—that it provides consumers with necessary information—hasn’t been valid for decades.
Oh NOOOOOO
My point is - they will not allow that to happen.
In order for something like this to take place you would need a full blown communist revolution
Yeah, that’s fair. Though Google specifically has lost the plot for sure with the LLM strealing website traffic.