• Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    Interestingly growing up with the internet and alongside the growth of internet based advertising I kinda inadvertently developed a sort of mental adblock. I kinda don’t see or hear them even as they’re happening, I feel like one of those Westworld robots “Doesn’t look like anything to me”. I think everyone’s kinda got one of those even from all the tv and radio ads before the internet and still today, hence needing to justify so much marketing research and creative work to stand out but it seems I reached some saturation point a long time ago and now I’d have to actually choose to concentrate to even perceive an ad happening.

    This has survived despite probably 15 years of ublock origin use. I definitely noticed when I use a machine without it that there’s like impediments to navigation if the web, like road blocks but I’m so trained to close the ad or leave the page that all I ever see is the x button.

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      1 month ago

      Yeah, I still listen to the radio occasionally. Then I get an ad with a siren, I call up my friend John at the station and let him know, and I stop listening for a month.