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u/Utahteenageguy Mar 16 '23
I hate how there’s advertisements everywhere nowadays. There’s even adds on my tv remote app.
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u/Axunujar Mar 16 '23
Try NextDNS or RethinkDNS. They block most ads on my phone.
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u/YT_Hitu1197 Mar 16 '23
Fr I was gonna say that. Rethink DNS is a must for Android and NextDNS config file for IOS. I use it on my phone and ipad resprctively. If you choose the correct blocklists then u can get rid of most ads and trackers and if u use an alternative dns which is better than default dns that few ISPs provide then you can even fix the fluctuations and get smooth wifi connection!
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u/WithOrgasmicFury Mar 16 '23
Ads are a cancer upon the world. The more you see the more degenerative the society there is.
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u/LinxESP Mar 16 '23
rootmytv for LG TVs allows for homebrew apps, one is a button remapper. I have it so my netflix button opens jellyfin and the amazon prime opens hdmi1. And those buttons are already blank from use, so a win-win.
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u/Sandbartender Mar 16 '23
There are alot less billboards away from big cities every day. But in big cities they are taller and electronic. Advert change every 20 seconds.
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u/DaRootBeer123 Mar 16 '23
This isn't fully true, at least as far as my personal experience goes. Living in what would be considered the exurbs, billboards are everywhere. it isn't just a way to advertise stuff in the city. I've seen some of the dumbest billboards like one advertising mattresses, a church, and even fucking bread. It really comes down to the state government and the laws that they have on billboards.
Missouri (my home state) is horrible with this. There is pretty much no restrictions on billboard laws, meaning you will see them along every highway, no matter if you're in a city or not. The only place you wouldn't see then is like the REALLY rural farmlands.
Iowa is the opposite. Driving through Iowa is like paradise because they have basically no billboards (they aren't outlawed but are regulated). One regulation is that they need to be a certainly distance away from the road, usually far enough away that it's not distracting when driving.
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u/testcaseseven Mar 16 '23
In my experience they get dumber and more extreme the further from an urban area that you go. I live in rural Kansas and it feels like half of them are just telling me I'm gonna go to hell if I don't call the number on the board. I'll take nature over that bs any day.
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u/Lenny_Pane Mar 16 '23
You've just got the pro-life billboards and the adult store billboards when you get far enough out
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Last week my partner and I drove through the north woods of Wisconsin to Ironwood and we finally saw it. A Jesus Saves type billboard literally right next to an adult store billboard and another Christian billboard on the other side of the road. I miss living in Vermont 🥲
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u/Ok-Championship8024 Mar 16 '23
when my boyfriend and i drove through montana, we saw adult store billboards and then ones cautioning about chronic wasting disease in deer…there was a bit of mood whiplash to say the least
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u/Lenny_Pane Mar 16 '23
Lmao I'm from Wisconsin, maybe that's more specific than I thought
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The funny thing is that Wisconsin is statistically one of the least religious states. I’ve lived in the Deep South too, it’s much worse down there. But having lived in VT where religion’s hardly an afterthought and billboards are banned, even WI is shocking to me.
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u/JoycenatorOfficial Mar 16 '23
It’s because the religious folks that are here in Wisconsin are very extreme in their beliefs. Also the farther north you go, the more religious it tends to get
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u/PiratesFan1429 Mar 16 '23
I love driving through Missouri, billboards make it interesting. You can only look at so many pastures before you get bored
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u/DaRootBeer123 Mar 16 '23
I'd say the same thing but reverse. I get so tired of billboards. I wanna see some God damn nature, not another shitty ass advertisement.
Plus, they ruin the land itself, making it useless if the billboard gets removed and people wanna put something else there. Governments and corporations use the awful excess of "well the land is already fucked so why not keep them"
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u/OneWholeSoul Mar 16 '23
I'm against them on aesthetic principles but how do they ruin the land?
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u/Hephaestus_God Mar 16 '23
There are billboards advertising casinos in the middle of nowhere Texas.
And that casino is a short 6 hour drive away in Oklahoma
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u/darthcaedusiiii Mar 16 '23
And blinds you when an idiot decided a white background was some how needed.
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u/im-a-limo-driver Mar 16 '23
As someone who has driven through rural Georgia and Alabama a lot, I can confidently say you are incorrect. The amount of Alexander Shunarah and Jesus Hates You, Sinner billboards down there are absolutely outrageous.
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u/random-comment-drop Mar 16 '23
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I’ll never see a tree at all.
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u/thehypocrisyofreddit 🎃Happy Spooktober🎃 Mar 16 '23
i never thought that i would see (a speculation slightly brash) that famous quote about a tree or someone quoting Ogden Nash
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They should ban billboards on a federal level, they are very distracting on the road.
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u/wobbly_doo Mar 16 '23
But..money
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Thats why I said should, they're not going to ever do that. Too greedy.
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u/StopReadingMyUser Mar 16 '23
Should also get rid of toll roads while we're at it, but won't do that either. The idea that your tax dollars go to roads and then they charge you for them indefinitely (initially a temporary addition to help reduce the impact of the cost or whatever) has gotta be one of the most backwards things we accept on a daily basis.
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u/Spam4119 Mar 16 '23
The underlying problem is how absolutely horribly expensive car infrastructure is. You want better roads? We have to start getting rid of them and switch to much more effective forms of public transportation so that cities can actually afford to maintain the roads they have remaining.
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u/DrMobius0 Mar 16 '23
Right. Lets just cut out the middle man and have advertisements play on your car's dash.
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u/DiligentTangerine Mar 16 '23
But then I'd miss out on the greats like "the Bible, seriously" To this day I'm unsure what to be serious about
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u/ThatGuyStanding Mar 16 '23
One of those electric billboards switched to an ad that was extremely white, and my head recognized it as a moving object, and I took my eyes of the road. Thankfully it didn't cause an accident or anything. Though a few days later I lost traction on ice and rolled my pickup into a snowy embankment. It was this Monday by the way.
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u/Deytookerjerb Mar 16 '23
Did it have anything to do with the billboard?
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u/EwoDarkWolf Mar 16 '23
Obviously. It was so distracting that it delayed it's affects until the next Monday.
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u/droo46 Mar 16 '23
Agreed. Utah has so many ads everywhere.
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u/1infinitefruitloop Mar 16 '23 edited Mar 16 '23
You can tell when you’re approaching a town with less than 1000 people because there are 80 billboards lined up along the way. My father sat next to the CEO of Regan Advertising (or something similar) on a flight once. Apparently was totally drunk and rude to everyone. Did not leave a good impression at all….
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u/alexdiezg GigaChad Mar 16 '23
And snap just like that, lad's got his fucking account deleted.
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u/CulLavellan Professional Dumbass Mar 16 '23
especially the ones claiming fetuses have eyes within the first 2 weeks after conception. those distract me a lot. make me real angry on the road.
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u/Kdog9999999999 Mar 16 '23
See that shit all over Texas. So fucking gross.
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u/CulLavellan Professional Dumbass Mar 16 '23
I live in New England, so we see them far less up here. but when they do pop up, hooooooo boy. I get ANGRY. I can’t imagine what it’s like having that garbage distract you every couple miles in Texas.
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u/TheAmazingDisgrace Mar 16 '23 edited Mar 16 '23
They aren't very distracting for me. There are many things more distracting- phones, infotainment screens and controls, other drivers, pedestrians, headlights, audiobooks/radio, gps noises, stores and restaurants, etc.
All billboards here are static images; I do agree that the changing self-lit ones are more annoying though
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u/bluebox12345 Mar 16 '23
Other drivers, pedestrians and headlights are not distracting from traffic. They ARE the traffic.
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u/Senor_Taco29 Mar 16 '23
Yeah distracting is about the last thing I'd call a billboard, it's incredibly easy to ignore them
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u/readitonreddit86 Mar 16 '23
Meanwhile in Ohio…Hell Is Real (not an Ohio meme, it’s actually a billboard we have to see every freaking day)
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u/TheNerd669 Identifies as a Cybertruck Mar 16 '23
Hell IS in Ohio. It’d be weird if hell weren’t real
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u/MegaGrimer Mar 16 '23
That’s why there’s been more astronauts from Ohio than any other state. They’re trying to escape hell.
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u/Lovecraftenberg Mar 16 '23
In Georgia there's one about Jesus coming back or something and he fights zombies and commands soldiers.
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u/God_Next_Door Mar 16 '23
Lmao I was driving the other day and saw “shackled by LUST? Turn to Jesus” in Dayton Ohio area 🤣
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u/azaltard Mar 16 '23
Wait that's not how every rural area looks like ? There are billboards there too ?
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u/CharizardCharms Mar 16 '23
You can’t drive more than 5 miles on a rural highway in Texas without a damn beaver billboard taunting you. Buccees in 35 miles!!! 30.2 miles!! 25 miles!! 23.5 miles!!! And so on.
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u/TheCastro Mar 16 '23
Lots of places have no billboards especially if you're far from any decent sized towns. I've driven literally all over this country except the PNW, tons of rural areas are billboard free.
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u/EliteRanger_ Mar 16 '23
My town is full of them on the main roads. The highway out of town has about 20 in a few mile stretch. I didn't know it wasn't normal until I grew up.
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u/VerySuperGenius Mar 16 '23
Let's also get rid of insanely tall business signs. It ruins the look of a beautiful city when there is a giant set of golden arches 200 feet into the sky.
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u/implante Mar 16 '23
Vermont also banned tall and large signs. No bigger than 150 sq ft, no taller than 25 feet or 10 ft above roof.
https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/10/021/00493
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u/Truffle42069 Mar 16 '23
Vermont is actually a beautiful state to drive thru. It really is.
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u/Websters_Dick Mar 16 '23
I'll have you know, my county has nearly 10k people in it.
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u/sayonaraasswipe Mar 16 '23
Yeah, in warm seasons it is pleasing to the eye during the three hours from the Massachusetts border to the Canadian border, but that's still a long trip for a drive through. And then you've got to turn around and do it going the other way.
Be sure to stock up on the ends before crossing over, because there's fuck all in-between.
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u/LeilaDFW Mar 16 '23
Now I want to see Vermont in person.
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u/HarryBawlz-1 Mar 16 '23
Beautiful state. When I was married my wife and I would take a trip there every year. I hope you get the chance to see it someday.
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u/binary45 Mar 16 '23
You should visit Vermont, or any of the more rural states for that matter. I’ve been to Vermont pretty much every year, and it’s the most beautiful state I’ve been to. It even lacks light pollution, provided you’re not near the major towns, to the point where you can see the Milky Way.
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u/randomnassusername Mar 16 '23
It’s very beautiful I’d recommend going in the fall the trees look wonderful
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u/dervalanana Mar 16 '23
That is specifically is route 4 headed west out of rutland. Not a bad drive, takes you quickly to new york (where there's a billboard right at the border. If you're going into VT its advertising the rutland mcdonalds).
Its probably the best shot for a main road going AT hills like that.
Another good drive is heading north out of rutland along root 7, towards middlebury, and eventually burlington and the lake champlain area. The dairy farms in the champlain valley leave lots of open flat land, and you can see to the mountains on either side from there. A good look in all seasons, but definitely best in the fall. That said, be careful in the summer in particular. Because... well... dairy farms are harsh on the nose
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u/ggtffhhhjhg Mar 16 '23
Unless you’re retired, independently wealthy, work remotely or have the money to start your own small business it’s an incredibly difficult place to make a living.
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u/altrippa Mar 16 '23
it's a place not a person
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u/velociraptorjax Mar 16 '23
But how will I know which exit to take for the adult superstore? Or what Jesus would say about porn?
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u/NewFaded Mar 16 '23
Vermont is like the least religious state in the country so I doubt you'll have that problem. I grew up there. No one I knew went to church and no one cared.
I now live in rural NC and it's a cesspool of religion and Idiocracy. There's also trash everywhere, whereas Vermont was basically spotless, at least when I was still there.
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u/hiccupmortician Mar 16 '23
How do you know what DWI lawyers and personal injury lawyers to call? How do you find a dentist that makes "sexy teeth?" How do people learn about Jesus or know where to stop for BBQ?
Texas here. We have soooo many billboards. The worst, all around DFW, is Mint Dentistry. They make sexy teeth. Every damn billboard says so. Inwish we had this law!
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u/The_Mega_Man192 Mar 16 '23
oh man, went to vermont in the winter, so beautiful, like take a picture from anywhere and it will 90% of the time be a 10/10
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u/Rachy_Pink Mar 16 '23
Dayum. That is one beautiful scenery!
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u/LEGO_bruh Mar 16 '23
As a Vermonter I can say that it only looks that way 15 days out of the year
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u/Googoltetraplex Mar 16 '23
Hey this fucking Massachusetts person says it ain't all that much better down here.
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u/Kitty_live_coffe Mar 16 '23
It's a beautiful view, I don't understand how you can close it with a billboard advertising and other nonsense. That would be the stupidest thing
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u/Burpmeister Mar 16 '23
Using your phone while driving is rightfully illegal because you need to be focused on driving but here are millions of ads on the roadside that are literally designed to capture your attention as effectively as possible because fuck you, money.
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u/Short_Operation7720 Mar 16 '23
That would be bliss. I despise the election signs. I can think one that is still up from an election last fall. Not billboard but a 4'x8' sign. The religious, political, pro whatever, not a fan.
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u/JasonPalermo4 Mar 16 '23
It's funny seeing the vote counter. The occasional run of down votes has me like, "who is PRO BILLBOARD?"
Then I thought. And realized...
Advertisers.
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I am a capitalist. I believe in free markets. BUT I’m gonna be honest, something needs to be done legally about this advertising shit. Marketing has become so pervasive and so deeply rooted in our lives it’s actually insane.
Before we had advertisements on every surface imaginable people still bought things, business was still done, and people still had jobs. Nowadays it feels inescapable and I’m so fucking over it.
I want to just watch 1 football game that doesn’t have an hour of fucking commercials slowing the pace down. Idgaf if it affects players salaries and shit, paying a ball player more than a million is already an insane amount of money. Let me watch the game
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u/Realistic_Truck Mar 16 '23
Regulation is a part of capitalism, it isn't anti capitalist to set limits in the market so long as the price of goods and services isn't artificially set by the government.
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u/neregekaj Mar 16 '23
You ain't a capitalist, my friend.
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u/CarrowFlinn Mar 16 '23
Lol.
"I'm a capitalist but I sure can't stand the natural progression capitalism has taken. It sure feels like every one of our senses are constantly being bombarded by someone trying to sell us something."
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u/snail360 Mar 16 '23
I am a capitalist.
Do you own capital, such as a factory or large investments, the passive income from which allows you to not work? If not, you're a worker in a capitalist system
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u/VoluminousVictor Mar 16 '23 edited Mar 16 '23
You are a capitalist? (believing in the free market doesn't make you a capitalist)
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u/Cuauhte-Martin Mar 16 '23
They take breaks in football all the time. Why would they not put ads in between, people dont care about seeing a football player scratch his ass on the 20th break
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u/Spiritual_Conference Mar 16 '23
Alabama guy checking in (Roll Tide). Y’all need to come see our Alexander Shunnarahs out here.
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u/nature_nate_17 Ermahgerd! Mar 16 '23 edited Mar 17 '23
I went to Vermont on the only adult vacation I’ve had in my work life and it was the most amazing experience ever. I see now why it is called the Green Mountain State.
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Mar 16 '23
Billboards, fast food signs on poles and overhead power and phone lines all make small towns in the USA very ugly. I support the ban, but it needs to go further.
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u/-i_like_trees- memer Mar 16 '23
Vermont looks disgusting
If it were up to me I would start by cutting down all trees and flattening out those hills, then I would fit a massive car park and mcdonalds in there with lawyer billboards every 2 meters
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u/GameDestiny2 Mar 16 '23
After reading these comments, I’ve never been so confused where I stand on the politics of billboards in my life, I also never thought I’d be thinking about the politics of billboards.
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u/ActStunning3285 Mar 16 '23
I love this. I don’t want to constantly attacked by ads and marketing telling me I need to buy this thing. It’s capitalism unhinged. I really want to see nature, not another Chick-fil-A cow
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u/Agolferslife Mar 16 '23
I really miss living in Vermont sometimes. Best place on earth to spend a summer. So many neat things to do. Winters however, not a fan.
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u/skyHawk3613 Mar 16 '23
Why do we need billboards anymore, when we are constantly inundated with ads on the internet
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u/skyHawk3613 Mar 16 '23
I don’t think I’ve ever bought anything because I saw it on a billboard before
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u/robinob93 Mar 16 '23
Holy hell I visited my grandparents every year in Vermont and never noticed they have no billboards. I guess that makes sense in my head now. Lol
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u/manacheetah Mar 16 '23
Maine, Vermont, Alaska and Hawaii have all banned billboards.