What kind of stupid take is this? I avoid ads because I find them annoying. It doesn’t supercharge the ones I can’t avoid.
It’s two fold: ads are annoying, and they actually work to slowly make you less happy without the advertised product.
thats what they want you to believe
I am unhappy that the product exists in any way, regardless of my having it or not. The only thing that would make me desire the object more, is if it kills billionaires. Always tempting, those ones.
I’ve never seen a Taco Bell add and thought I was missing out. I’m not suddenly craving plastic looking food.
It just seemed like an observation to me. One that personally rings true.
I didn’t read it as being pro-ad or anti-adblock. Just more of like, “have you noticed this?” type thing.
Was honestly surprised when I saw that so many people here are taking this to be some kind of anti ad blocker message. I just don’t see it.
I find it pretty easy actually, it’s alien now but in a way that can be classified and instantly dismissed.
My reaction is instant annoyance and avoidance. I don’t remember anything about the ad either, so it doesn’t make it any more memorable either.
Exactly.
My brain just hears “buy product! We like our product to spend money on it to try to influence you! Now look at these pictures or hear these sounds of said product”
Like man in a suit walking up to me on the street and asking if I’d buy a cheeseburger from him because he likes it a lot.
Enjoy your product sir, ill be leaving now.
Like man in a suit walking up to me on the street and asking if I’d buy a cheeseburger from him because he likes it a lot.
I see you’ve met Danny. How’s he doing these days?
“By not drinking antifreeze, you’ve just re-sensitized yourself so any antifreeze you drink will be impossible to metabolize.”
But I love my wine
At this point, I have difficulty following a conversation in the same room where a TV is playing.
I have had trouble not disassociating in a room where a TV is playing since I was a kid. I hate that it’s hard to find a place to eat that doesn’t have a million TVs these days.
I always save the 3.5 jack from headphones when they die. I carry them with me because they can instantly silence any TV you can reach. Doctors offices and airports are much better now.
I had never seen that before I came to the US, tv’s are only supposed to be in sports bars, why are they everywhere?
Saaaaammmmeeeee
Same, have this problem all the time at my in laws. TV is blasting all day
The silver lining of this is that now when I do see ads I am instantly angered by them. So I have a new kind of immunity, hatred for marketing
My solution to avoiding capitalist propaganda is being too poor to afford things
Commercial starts: “Buy our new…”
Me: " Okay, this is clearly not meant for me…"
I’ve almost seen zero ads in about 15 years. I use all the types of adblockers: browser extensions and dns-based. I don’t use traditional TV or movie theatres. I don’t read printed magasines. So really, really close to no ads in 15 years. Yesterday I went to the fueling station with my car: there was nobody else. They changed the station so now, there’s screens showing ads and really loud audio. Since there was nobody else, I could hear all 8 pump’s ads screaming at the same time. It was really dystopian and overstimulating. I only managed to put like 5 litres and I couldn’t stand it, I was screaming at the screen to stop shouting at me. I did pay my 5 litres that I put in, but I left for another gas station. I will never return to that one, which was my usual one.
Gas pump ads are the worst. I stopped going to a station because they couldn’t be muted, and they’re the ads that scream at you or brain rot craft videos. I wouldn’t have minded so much if was only the “good news” segment or usefull PSAs. But yelling at me at 7am to buy beef jerky is not okay.
If a person came up to you at the pump and offered a flyer, that’s okay. But if they started screaming at you to buy their shit, that’d be harassment. Gas pumps should not be allowed to “harass” people.
Luckily the stations near me that play ads only play ads when you’re actively pumping gas.
Of course they sound horrific now that all the speakers are blown, you can’t even tell what the ad is trying to say.
Second button from the top on the right side.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.
And when it doesn’t, an air can upside-down in the speaker grille leaves no evidence.
Fuck that leave evidence. I want them to know it was me who destroyed their ad machine
Did you forget that your car has a license plate and registration lol
i go everywhere on a very recognizable ebike that is why i forgot that
Find the speakers, take a safety pin, poke through the speaker holes. Problem solved.
When my wife was pregnant with our youngest she had to eat a no fat diet so I joined her. After the birth we went back to eating normally and felt sick. We eat much healthier now.
When trying to lose weight I cut out soda, a few years later I tried a soda and it tasted like garbage to me. All I could taste was salty sugar and avoid just about anything but water idea days.
After years of no ads when I watch live sports (watched the Pikes Peak HC today for example) I have to mute the TV and look away. I’m repulsed by then completely.
This is a good thing.
I have to mute the TV and look away. I’m repulsed by then completely.
and this is why google is trying to incorporate cameras into TVs and entertainment systems.
can’t look away if big brother is watching.
Fuck…
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.
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.
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.
Fuckin right
Life is hell
Yeah it’s just annoying to have to keep paying attention anyway so you know when to unmute. So you end up watching a little bit of silent ads anyway.
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.
Everyone has mindcontrol. I can even force you into thinking about a house being covered with butter. You see?
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.
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.
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.
God I feel this. If I’m at someone else’s house, or a bar and free to air is on, I’ get so distracted. I think it’s partly the ADHD partly the fact every ad is brand new to me. Distraction is the
So distracted they couldn’t finish the thought
When I was eating dinner with my ex we liked to put on a youtube video to watch. We always did it on my phone even tho the screen is smaller because I use YouTube vanced, so we didn’t have to watch any ads or sponsored segments. Anytime we would have to use her phone cause mine was empty or something I annoyed the hell out of me that we had to watch two ads just for a 16 minute video
