I don’t use adblock just so I don’t have to see ads, I use adblock so that every time I view a news article I don’t have 50 different domains grabbing my browser fingerprint to build a profile on me that can be used to bypass my 4th amendment right to privacy.
Ad Block already exists on TV:
Depends. On some Smart TVs, if you try to mute advertisements on certain streaming platforms, it won’t let you. It will only go to half volume.
At a certain point it becomes cult-like and you reel in disgust.
Who they fuck watches broadcast TV? Back to bed Grandpa
It doesn’t say the TV is only broadcast. Lots of people have smart TVs and use streaming services that also force ads upon you.
I’m watching the France match right now on live TV. Putting a cane on the wish list for my 38th this summer.
Nah, I have decades of practice filtering out ads and the old habits come right back when I have to endure them.
I’m so thankful my parent’s rule was that we muted TV commercials. Crazy how many people don’t think to just mute youtube ads and pay attention to something else for 30 seconds.
They actually plan on ads being tuned out, it’s more about choking out the presence of competitors than it is actually convincing the audience that their product is worth while; y’know, like a weed.
Either way, I don’t fall for it because I just make sure to type in “Reddit,” right after my search for a product I want so that I get honest human reviews and not ads. 😏
Lolz who is going to tell orioler25?
What kind of dumb fucking oh you are worse off cause you are avoiding ads bullshit. That’s dumber than saying you are missing out on pop culture. You spent time on this meme and now im commenting on it. SAD
Actually it’s the opposite. It pisses me off so much when I see an ad now.
I can’t even stand that “corporate enthusiasm” tone anymore. It’s just fake.
Yeah, getting away from ads after a lifetime’s exposure just highlights how disruptive they are when you see them again. Especially since most have negative value to the consumer.
I grew up in the time when you watched live television and Mom made use mute all advertisements because she hated how loud they were. (Advertisements were broadcast louder than the programs) When I was in someone else’s home that didn’t mute them I don’t feel like it made me pay attention to the messaging. That was still time to talk, get a drink, or use the facilities.
I do watch television. The Finnish public broadcaster, so no ads. Really good use for tax money, people tend to say. The streaming service is incredible considering it’s free and has no ads.
That sounds like a dream. I think public broadcasting is an excellent use of tax dollars.
Eh, not really. I barely see ads and I’m fine tuning out the ones I do see.
Granted, I’m not the type to go on those really dramatic anti-advertising tirades you see around.
Bullshit.
I don’t run ad block because they’re showing me ads, I run it because creepy fuckers are trying to collect everything I’ve ever done online and store it forever.
Ads are supposed to target our cognitive unconscious.
Think about a car advertisement. Its not supposed to make you buy the car, it’s supposed to make you aware of the car and what it represents. Its mass imposition of a dezired emotional connection to the producers and that which they promote.
They are conditioning us through imposition.
And you know that the masses are bombarded with it, so you know the overton window is shifted towards corporations. Anyone could challenge such an imposition, but it is not a single one, but thousand upon thousand.
Society are conditioned by capital through imposition.
When we see an imposition, we can either let it condition us or react to it.
By reacting, we entertain their framing which can make the imposition more effective.
There’s always someone saying something like this in any “I hate ads” kind of thread but I gotta say that it sounds like the sort of shit marketers want everyone to believe because they want to drive demand for them.
I’m calling bullshit and don’t believe that marketers have unlocked any kind of mind control powers that work on everyone including those hostile to what they are trying to say and that our subconscious are so easy to manipulate once we’ve become aware of those manipulations.
Uno Reverse: I boycott every product in every ad I see
haha… same here… i boycott for 6 months after i have seen an ad.
toughest one so far had been seeing an ad of my favourite coffee brand a couple years back
How do you do that? Do you see no ads or do you keep a list of not to buy?
Or just when the effect kicks in and you remember sth out of the ads you don’t buy it?
Also if sth. needs as much ads as raid shadow legends you can safely assume it is not worth it’s money
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I almost get zero ads, I would if I lived alone
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Yes
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That too
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Basically
It’s almost easier to go “I’ve heard of this… nah.”
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