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by unalone 4816 days ago
That's facetious and doesn't address OP's point, which is that certain industries are banned from advertising their products in certain ways when said products could harm their users.

I don't agree that Facebook is necessarily at the point where we can call it harmful, but your "all you need to do is outbid Facebook" spiel is some smarmy nonsense – not least of which because Facebook itself owns some premier adspace outright, which it's more than willing to use to spam whatever new product of theirs that they'd like.