[aljgz]

It should also be illegal to have ads in the Amazon marketplace (where we pay to buy products), Google/apple app store (where people already paid for a phone), Uber ride, and basically anywhere we have already paid to use something.

If this is not stopped, there's no limit, your car, TV, fridge, it will be everywhere, and it pumps more and more income away from people and products/service providers into advertisers' pockets.

[creesch]

It really should be illegal. Companies aren't going to do it themselves as it is a huge potential revenue stream.

So much so that it effectively has become the main focus of some companies who we as consumers still perceive as online stores/marketplaces. Specifically sponsored search results apparently can become a bigger income stream than the one from actual sales themselves.

Which is great for these companies, terrible for us consumers.

[insickness]

It's one thing to enforce contracts but another for government to dictate how private platforms monetize their own property. If ads make the service worse, the answer is competition and exit, not government bans. No one is forcing you to use these platforms.

[aembleton]

Also it shouldn't be allowed in Supermarkets

[EvgeniyZh]

> your car, TV

yeah I hope I won't ever be shown ads on TV for which I already paid

[crtasm]

Unavoidable ads in the UI of the TV itself? I would hope not.

On channels/services that you might choose to access via the TV? That's a separate matter.