uBlock Origin doesn’t work on radio, but it’s been a long time since I’ve had to endure ads on YouTube.
Ikr? If they still complain about YouTube ads the suffering can’t be that bad or they would finally install a fucking ad blocker.
a LOT of people have no idea how any of that works. And I don’t shit on them, I help them. Sometimes I install uBlock on people’s computers without telling them because if I told them then whenever their printer stops working it would be my fault, but they often get surprised after a while like, huh I don’t get ads anymore that’s weird and great…
If they knew it would probably stop working, as then Google would be motivated enough to break it 😅
Some people get off on being punished
Now I’m picturing a Russian immigrant named Ublick Orekhov who sits silently by the living room radio and turns the volume down when an ad comes on.
VPNs with DNS level blocking like Mullvad gets around ads on most podcasts for me. I don’t pretend to know how that works, but it does.
When it doesn’t I get ads from Papua New Guinea, which I don’t mind because I don’t understand what the fuck they’re saying and it sounds funny.
Youtubes ads for liberty have ensured that I will never, ever, evereverever buy insurance from liberty.
Why tf would I want to give my money to a company that has been, basically, waterboarding me with ads? Ruining my entertainment? It makes no sense.
My logic is that they are spending way too much money on advertising, so it will be more expensive for me for no gain.
My view is that if they need to advertise so much they must have a shitty product.
I always make mental note of the companies with invasive and shitty advertising so I can avoid them… glad others do to.
Try to hijack my subconscious and see how pissed I get.
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You gotta admit the baby ads are fun
It’s pronounced “Bibberty”
No ad is fun, no ad is art, no ad is good. Anyone involved in the creation of ads is a terrible person and you are brainwashed by a culture in decline
I agree with a lot of this but I think it’s excessive to say involvement in any ad makes you terrible. Local band puts up flyer at local bar. Karaoke MC says he’ll be at bar Y next week and back here same day next month. I don’t think that makes them bad people. I certainly don’t think it makes the people who designed the flyer bad people. I think ads have become bad and pervasive, but in reality they could and should serve a purpose. If there’s something I’d be interested in, I want to know about it, but there’s no way for me to subconsciously just get all of that information. Newsletters, another form of advertising, are a great way to do this, but those too have suffered. Ads could at least be somewhat informative, but now they’re all just “brand awareness”. I think that’s one of the big issues. I understand the perspective of wanting a 0 ad life, but I think a lot of that mindset comes from the abuse ads have done. Autoplay video ads? Abhorrent. Small ad on a bar website telling me when happy hour is? Helpful. That’s just my opinion, obviously, but I thought I’d mention as an alternative perspective.
Those local ads clutter the landscape and litter. They also wouldn’t be necessary if people went back to local community engagement for things like art rather than over reliance on corporate art forms, eg if advertising didn’t permeate every facet of our existence the problem might self correct.
Also in a just society one could just play music to enjoy the art form rather than submit to the vanity of self promotion to try and gather fame.
You’re also confusing advertising with information. The bar website having information on happy hour is not an ad. That is information. This is why the yellow pages were not an ad. The difference here is consent. You chose to seek that information out, so it is fine. Obviously there needs to be a way to find information for like local mechanics and shit. But getting a flyer in the mail from one? Yuck.
I’d say some ads can be cultural relevant, but it’s pretty rare that an ad hits that spot, because they don’t aim for it.
No ad is fun, no ad is art, no ad is good
Even Art Nouveau?
Liberty mutual ads suck. Full stop.
I’ve seen ads though that I didn’t hate, or actually showed something interesting/cared about. I can’t remember what it was lol.
Like there’s a .0001% chance to find a good ad. I also just never see any, but my mom watches a lot of YT on our TV and refuses to try SmartTube, so that’s the only place where I’m forced to see ads…
I loved the old Gushers ads, always wished my head would actually turn into a fruit lol.
I use ublock origin. I don’t see no ads.
No ublock for when you walk around outside and get assaulted by ads though…
That’s what a spray can and molotow is for
thats what the hippocampus is for
Radio “solved” it by syncing their ads. What are you gonna switch to? Other ads?
Behold the innovation! Praise capitalism!
The BBC. No adverts.
It’s great, but I don’t think it would work in USA. Imagine the reaction of Americans if they would have to pay $200 a year for a TV license.
We have (for now at least) NPR and PBS.
Me: turns off radio for 5 minutes
Radio stations everywhere: wait no reeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
car manufacturers: actually we found that people drive safer if we disable the radio off button when driving
Advertising is the inflamed appendix of capitalism.
Advertising is the inflamed appendix of capitalism.
I have 2 wolves, etc
I thought being pushy and invasive was the whole point of advertising.
Fanta pissed me off with their ads 20+ years ago. I have not had a Fanta since.
It’s my favorite softdrink - i’m lucky that didn’t happen for me. Do you perchance still remember what ad it was and how i could search for it? i’m intrigued now :-)
Fanta Fanta, don’t you want a? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEb0cYq6dvI
at least that’s what comes to my mind
oof, that’s annoying as hell, i agree
Then they went with just having the radio performers do the ad in the middle of the show, and we’re back to that again with youtubers sticking ad reads in the middle of their videos…
I remember when that used to be considered “tacky.” In fact a whole lot of things so-called “influencers” do today are things that probably would’ve gotten them labeled as “tacky” and “sell-outs” back in the 90s. Somehow, over the course of the decades, these things have become acceptable and expected.
I cringe when a Youtuber shills for companies, especially since it was revealed that “Honey” (which I used to see a lot of creators promote) was screwing over the very people who advertised for it.
I’ve stopped listening to the radio, watching TV, or using social media altogether. They keep interrupting my ads with content.
Complaints about media in 2050:
Ironic part is they proved it worked cause they’re specifying the brand
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