I’ve never seen an apple with a best buy/expiration date on it.
Is it a show that streams on Apple TV?
No those are only advertised on Macintosh
Considering it’s just taking up space on a normal sticker, and it doesn’t track you, this isn’t that bad honestly. I wish this was the worst.
Abbot Elementary apple sticker ads are clever, minimally invasive and I argue that this is what advertising should be.
This is a creative, tongue in cheek ad for a comedy about school teachers. Teachers stereotypically are given apples so its related.
You cannot compare this to the Pluribus fridge ads or car infotainment ads which make no sense other than “get more eyes on it”.
An ad being clever doesn’t make it okay. And it’s not even clever, it’s just a basic reference. Ads being more pervasive are disgusting. This is disgusting. Is it okay for ads to be on literally every single surface in existence as long as it’s “clever” and “not too big”? Because the scum fucks in advertising firms will literally do whatever they can to cover every surface in garbage and this is just another step in that direction.
Fuck all advertising and destroy all advertisers. They will destroy everything in their path otherwise
Kind of a philosophical question from your response: is any type of advertising OK? I don’t doubt that advertisers can and will continue to pollute every inch of our lives, but in a vacuum this is basically an ideal ad. Its minimal, clever, untargeted, temporary, for a decent show, and not massively over produced or jarring. To me, those aspects make it OK and I won’t complain.
However, there’s simply not enough opportunities like this for advertising to exist as an ethical profession. There’s no point cheering it on or “voting with your wallet”, it’s not possible for 90% of products to have this serendipity. But I can’t say “fuck all advertising” when it does technically serve a purpose and can very occasionally be done in an ethical and interesting way. I’d rather see this specific post than the majority of banal memes on my feed.
Consensual advertising is ok. You make a website for your business that I visit because I search for or advertise in the yellow pages or whatever it is fine. I sought out information and you are listed in a directory.
The problem of course is gaming these systems. SEO and shit. Some people will pay a great deal of money to be listed first. What’s fair? Is alphabetical fair? Does that give an advantage to “Aaron”? I don’t know. But we aren’t even at the point where this is a real discussion so it doesn’t matter I guess.
Otherwise the advertising profession has consistently shown that they have no ethics whatsoever and if you give them an inroad into your thing they will overtake and destroy it. The radio, newspaper, tv, internet, outdoors, literally everything. All the privacy concerns we have online tie back to advertising fucks and government overreach.
Well said.
There will always be slop advertisements. I avoid traditional advertising by pirating or paying for an ad free version. I do still watch ads in the form of product reviews and such. There are great products that I found through advertising that I otherwise wouldn’t.
There is a lot of awful advertising and I’m numb to it, my brain doesn’t even register it.
The problem is bad advertising works. My job is related to the text messaging industry. We have clients that spent six figures on sending marketing messages, for every dollar they are spending on text marketing they are making 5x more in profit.
I like to think that there will be a shift in advertising towards more thoughtful placement as consumers learn to ignore but honestly I think that’s my own bias. Most people are susceptible to slop advertisements and so the slop will continue.
Your job sucks fuck you
I agree. And I fucking hate ads as well as never seen that show
It’s a fun show and even more fun if you’ve ever worked in education.
If an ad doesn’t track me, I am not going to let it annoy me. There are so many worse methods of advertising.
did you know those stickers are edible. eat the ads
Do not let them win. Eat the ad
Poop the ads
Do not buy those apples.
Vote with your wallet and be loud as fuck about it
I don’t like Abbott Elementary Apples anyway.
I’d rather have this than the unskippable & unmutable commercials yelling at me at the gas pumps. I’m just trying to get gas.
Look at how you’ve been conditioned… “I’d rather be slapped in the face than kicked in the balls!”
ow, my balls!
Well, I would. 🤷🏻♂️
Well said!
None of the EV chargers have ads, how long do you think that will last?
One more reason I’m happy EVs exist. No ads at my home charger.
Yet
Only my smart fridge, vacuum cleaner, phone, A/C control panel, front door smart lock, and reclining bed. But not in my dreams!
Stellantis just got in hot water for pushing ads to the screens in Jeep and Chrysler cars. So… Just you wait. Even if it doesn’t show you ads now, they can always update it.
Define “define got water” here because all I recall is people complaining. I have not heard that they faced and consequences.
Only brand loyal customers are buying those teash brands. Ads isn’t going to effect sales.
not limited to EVs though
but yes, this is one reason I won’t buy a car with tech like that
And I can always replace it. Charging stations are not complicated. And they don’t need connections to the internet to run.
OpenEVSE if you like tinkering or supporting open source.
I just threw a Shelly on my grizzl-e classic.
yeah I don’t buy gas at those places. if I pull up and there’s an annoying ad on screen, I just get back in my car and keep driving (after I give the location a one star review and note the ads)
2 problems - 1) The ads don’t usually start until after I’ve started pumping gas, and 2) the locally owned stations that don’t have these ads (and those are getting fewer and farther between) are more expensive by a good bit.
Is that a thing? Why don’t you just not ever use that brand of station again?
That’s half of all stations in my neck of the US. It’s hard to escape
If it’s only half, then you have a choice.
If i have to stop unexpectedly and it’s one with ads, I’m putting $5 and bouncing to another one i prefer.
Same, so I go to the other half. They tend to be the smaller owner-operated ones, so if I go inside to buy something, I mention how much I appreciate the lack of ads and that that’s why I go there.
Start punching the screens.
They change quick.
considering how prevalent gas stations are, taking half away still leaves you with quite a few options
They sadly have become far more uncommon, at least in the US. I can maybe only recollect a handful of gas stations that dont have them anymore…
Oh my god, that’s truly vile
If even people using Lemmy still go to those with ads, I can see how they win in general.
Thats the free market cooking at its finest now :D
It’s a thing, and it’s a thing at most corporate gas stations in my area. And most corporate stations have the cheapest gas prices - which I guess explains why they run ads.
Unfortunately, the one near me is the only source I know that supplies EtOH free gas (the blue handle).
What kind of weird antique car do you daily that can’t handle E10 gas?
I mean, let’s be honest: the vast majority of people who insist on that don’t actually need it; they just think lower emissions are “woke” or some shit like that.
I use it in my smaller recreational “toys”: ATV, snowblower for the ATV, motorcycle, backup generator. Those sorts of things. It’s not about not handling the normal stuff. I was under the impression that the EtOH stuff was better on the engines. Not a car guy, myself.
It’s going to be much worse very soon.
There are new parents superimpose ads on existing video streams.
The US: Truly the land of the free, and the home of the brave.
I’ve run into this a couple times and there’s usually a mute button. The ones I’ve seen have two columns of 4 buttons and is usually column 2 button 3. It shouldn’t be a thing but I make it a point to mute it every time
Yeah, that used to be the thing, but now in my area most of them have done away with the mute button. I’ve also tried pushing all of the buttons down both sides, but it still blares me. If there weren’t cameras at the pumps, I’d pull out my pocket knife and stab the speakers.
They removed the ability to mute the ads, like, maybe a year ago is the first time I noticed it was gone. If they play ads I will put headphones in and turn my back to the screen. Ads like this feel fucking abusive.
…i’d carry a hammer and awl if mine did that…
Yup. Doesn’t work for me either, anymore.
mute = second button down on the right
As others have noted, that doesn’t work anymore at most stations. Muting has been disabled.
…guess i’m fortunate not yet to have encountered a disabled-mute pump…
Right column, second row.
Press that to mute the ad.
A lot of gas stations have disabled the mute button now, but it’s still worth a shot
if it doesn’t work, just press harder. directly on the screen. might need something solid to register the press, those buttons can get gunked up over time and especially in the winter are hard to press. In fact, you might need to hit it to kind of break it free. the tire iron in your trunk is perfect for this. just make sure that you hit the screen dead center so you hit the switch accurately
The one near me that I use is kind of weird. If you pay at the pump before fueling up it gives you an ad but if you prepay inside and then fuel up it doesn’t give you an ad. I guess because if you go inside you’re seeing ads or are tempted to buy something? Much nicer to not have to listen to the ad though.
Huh pink lady’s i thought that they were only grown in western australia.
We def have them in Washington state USA. Also, might I introduce you to Frange’s 100 Point Apple Ranking Scale, a great way to waste some time if you care too much about apples like we Washingtonians do.
we have them in northern california. i ate some last time i was out by Placerville
Not that big into them, I worked in an orchard during my teen years. Best skill i learnt was juggling. But pink ladies then were only grown in the south west. I feel there was a trade agreement that allowed them to be grown elsewhere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cripps_Pink
Well props to you guys for that apple, it is one of my absolute favorites. Right up there with honeycrisp. I don’t super care about apples in general, but there are so many damn overhyped apples coming out these days (looking at you, Cosmic Crisp) that I started to develop a disdain for apples in general, which made finding the Frange rating scale quite cathartic.
You can find good ones. But it does feel we go for gross weight over quality these days. If you have never tried one nashi pears (south east asian pear or pear apple) are phenominal. Basically what you want a pear and an apple to taste like.
Apples; they’ve got what plants crave!
But what exactly are apples?
Um… berries? *laughs nervously in botanical confusion*
Did Driscoll’s simply buy out the FDA?
Nope, they’re ‘accessory fruit’, like strawberries.
When, though? Are they coconspirator fruits or accessory after the fact fruits?
Deffo coconspirators. They smuggle multiple seeds, using a pseudocarp to disguise them as a tasty snack, to ensure a wider
propagandapropagation network.Pseudocarp is a hilarious word, though 😄
The idea of a fruit concealing its seeds in a counterfeit fish really tickles my funny bone 😁
Oh boy, wait until you hear about how some nuts grow from a peduncle.
YES!
But… What are frogs?
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
And now you’re showing it to us instead of chucking it at the nearest physicist.
Do you mean physician like the “an apple a day keeps the doctor away” thing?
Or do you just harbor animosity towards people who study physics?
I meant like Alec Newtons.
How else will another physicist discover gravity?
That’s the nifty thing about most discoveries: they only have to happen once 🤷
No, I do my own research, thank you very much
Not much different than the bananas with Disney characters on them. This has been a thing for a long time now. It just happens to be a Hulu ad and not Disney specific.
There were Star Wars branded oranges in supermarkets back when
the prequelsThe Force Awakens was coming out.Edit: Got my timeline wrong. Still, it’s been a while.
They have Bluey branded apples now.
FYI, when using Markdown formatting here and on Reddit, you have to use two tildes:
~~the prequels~~ becomes
the prequels.Huh, I’m on Mbin and single tildes work just fine. Thanks for the heads up!
Oh, okay. It might be a Mbin-specific thing, then. I know they don’t work on Reddit or Lemmy!
Literally in the middle of the Beverly hillbillies they would run ads for Winston cigarettes, and it was a LONG ad meant to look like part of the show.
Nothing has changed at all. Tech allowed it to be even more in our face though.
Best to destroy screens at gas stations, and make it a point to not use anything you see advertised in an idiotic way.
Abbott elementary is hilarious though
Hopefully Apple doesn’t put Pluribus ads on fruit. That one lady named Carol would lose her poor mind.
Context (the original Reddit post)
Text copy of the post
My schizophrenic sister hospitalised herself because she throught she was having a psychotic episode where someone was attempting to communciate with her through her fridge. Turns out it was an advert on the LED screen.
Need some advice. She’s not really capable of organising most of her own affairs.
She spent 2 days under monitoring. This isn’t the first time she’s been kept in as she has had previous psychotic episodes once every two years or so.
During this time her medications were adjusted.
She also rang me during this time to tell me that “someone was trying to communicate with her through her fridge.” She booked a taxi to A&E and was driven there.
I’ve finally got her back home a few days ago. However, when I was scrolling on Facebook today I saw an advert on a smart fridge which stated the words, “WE’RE SORRY WE UPSET YOU, CAROL.” It was set against a creepy yellow background and was very ominous. Upon closer inspection it was an advert for some TV show.
That’s my sister’s name. Carol. I sent her the photo and asked if this was what she saw. She confirmed it.
Some creepy advert in a place where an advert shouldn’t usually go has sent her to the bloody hospital and triggered a review of the efficiacy of her antipyshotics.
Is this even legal in the UK? Running creepy adverts like that on a smart fridge with absolutely no way of knowing who could’ve seen them?
Sometimes they really are out to get you!
