| Okay, I can see your point about wanting to curb the abuses, but how do you accomplish that without removing the positives? For instance, I find that the advertising done by Facebook and Instagram very effective for me. The advertising tends to cater to niche things I have actually gotten real use from (in my case, it's soundkits containing midi files, and/or software musical instruments). I've purchased many of these and have been quite happy with both the offerings and the purchases. Sometimes these are by small companies (one to two man shops, or 10 people companies), and sometimes well known large companies. Under your thinking, and correct me if I'm wrong, but this sort of thing would be illegal. Word of mouth wouldn't work for me in cases like this, since it's particularly directed towards things I like, but I don't have very many friends in the music producer community (learning it for less than a year), and it seems in my case, I've really only been "scammed" once, which was easily disputed and rectified via PayPal. Now, I've been scammed before, online and off, with shady advertising, but this current model greatly benefits me. If I'm correct in assuming that you're against this sort of advertising, is there a substitute that would work, while still bringing the benefits to both sides? Because it appears to me that anything will have it's abuses and negative forms, but it really comes down to, is the advertising to blame, or the malignant folks who abuse it? |