[lucky_cloud]

A rare example where Betteridge's law does not apply.

The answer is 100% yes, and we should ban other forms of advertising as well. Ban as many as possible.

[christophilus]

I hate ads. I really do. I use ad-blockers and vastly prefer billboard-free zones. On the other hand, I like getting a paycheck, and I don’t know how our company would have ever gotten off the ground without advertising itself.

[Nextgrid]

So essentially, doing someone that's detrimental to people is fine as long as you're the one benefiting from it?

[scarface74]

What type of phone do you own? There is a statistically good chance you own one whose development is funded by an advertising company.

There is a 100% chance you are posting to a site whose entire reason for existing is to advertise companies that it has invested in.

[Bakary]

I don't think this sort of "yet you live in society, curious" argument is particularly helpful

Maybe the deeper problem is that living without enriching ad companies is a complex tax requiring research on everything you buy.

[verisimilitudes]

I own no phone. Google phones can't consistently dial emergency numbers, because they're programmed by incompetent fuckwads.

I agree that Hacker News should die.