I actively look to ads on purpose to remember what NOT to buy anytime anywhere for all my life. I only follow ads from small creators when they are clearly not invasive or disruptive and only if they are supporting the creator clearly.
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:
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.
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.
Life is hell
Fuckin right
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 can’t help all stupid people
I’m watching the France match right now on live TV. Putting a cane on the wish list for my 38th this summer.
That’s totally the same😂
So what are you saying. Get the overpriced premium subscriptions or pirate?
Actually it’s the opposite. It pisses me off so much when I see an ad now.
How is that the opposite? Is that not like the whole point of the meme? That you can’t tune it out and that sucks?
You’re right, I completely misread the meme.
I assumed they meant it would work better on me since I’m not used to it.
But actually it mean that it would be more annoying than before.
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 can’t even stand that “corporate enthusiasm” tone anymore. It’s just fake.
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.
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
I don’t think that was the message at all. Where does it imply that you’re worse off? It’s just a (in my experience) true statement about how ads are even more annoying when you’re not so accustomed to tuning them out (like we were in the cable TV days)
Was this a spirial?
At a certain point it becomes cult-like and you reel in disgust.
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.
Every ad I block is one fewer ad I have to see, so it’s a win either way
Use adnauseum to burn advertisers cash
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.
There was actually a successful campaign to get the FCC to force the volume of ads to be the same as the programming.
But that’s the FCC so it only applies to broadcast TV. As soon as they could do it with streaming content, they went right back to blasting the volume for ads. Because fuck the spirit of the law, this is capitalism.
I had a really advanced CRT that had a Commercial button in the remote. It’d auto-set a 30-second timer (+30 for every subsequent press) and you could freely swap channels. Timer expires, it switches back to the channel you were watching originally.
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 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.
Ads succeed when you “tune them out” so that they enter your unconscious mind, and then when you’re thinking, “I’m hungry, what’s for dinner,” the product comes to mind.
The best defence against this kind of inception is to consciously think about the ad that’s playing, and think, “I don’t want <X>”
By using adblock, you reduce your exposure to ads, and reduce the number of times you need to consciously resist them.
Q’s take is just wrong.
I use a vpn that builds in Adblock, and only stream ad free services. I see very few ads in general so when I am subjected to them it’s a visceral reaction. It makes me hate the product intensely. That seems to align with what you’re describing.
I also tend to overthink purchases and research them if there is not a suitable local option. I’m not just ordering the first thing that comes to mind, I’m picky.
It’s two fold: ads are annoying, and they actually work to slowly make you less happy without the advertised product.
I’ve never seen a Taco Bell add and thought I was missing out. I’m not suddenly craving plastic looking food.
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.
thats what they want you to believe
Bullshit.
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?
My reaction…
Same goes for influencers and internet celebrities. Or any celebrity.
Being almost completely detached from that lifestyle… It’s very weird seeing it.
…it’s scary too. That culture starts to look more like the culture of skid row. Just people that lost their minds. (Heavy generalization)
Shit… Just people that do those selfy videos with their opinion creep me tf out. …and twitter opinions… Etc… what a weird place we live. And most of the opinions are just regular marketed news opinions recycled because these people don’t even know how to be genuine or think for themselves. I feel like there’s an epidemic and most people are zombies detached from honest genuine humanity. And it’s so prominent…
Once you zoom out and view the humanity from a detached state, it just looks so fucking brainless, immature, and lacking integrity. …even the “successful” people.
For example… In America you basically can’t have an original serious genuine conversation about existentialism or honest politics. Most of the people don’t know how to think originally. Like it’s like talking to robots that were all built on a factory line and they only have the set of thoughts they were programmed to have.
Tge problem isn’t so much that people have changed. It is that these people are more visible. It’s a scale issue. The general public has always been this stupid, but before social media, they just kept to their local communities or even just their own households. Now those communities are online, global and mainstream and even the houswewives you wouldn’t normally see are there. It’s all the people, all at once.
Unless you want to do something about it, you can best ignore them. Stick to your own group and your own family. You’ll be much happier that way.
If you do want to do something. Repetition is key. Keep having the arguments that seem so pointless. Keep pointing to tge facts and the science,even though they don’t seem to listen. If they hear it often enough and from enough directions, it might spark something.
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?
Do you people actually need “/s” to not be annoying? I added the fucking smug face and everything.
I’m with you, I refuse to use it. If my comment gets downvoted because of that, then so be it.
Why try to be funny only to immediately compromise it?
I think it also depends on context. If you’re being “sarcastic” about something that could be harmful to someone if genuine, then it’s better to make that clear and avoid potentially doing that harm. In this case, I’m making fun of Reddit and ads, no harm done.
Ah yes, starting out with you people, the nicest way to do things. In case you didn’t realize plain text loses intonation and body language. Makes it hard to understand certain implications.
It doesn’t if you aren’t just dying to catch someone being stupid. I don’t care about being nice, this is the first time in my entire life that someone has admitted to expecting me to be nice online. /s
I guess we have different online experiences. Have a good one.
Okay, well this time I did put the “/s” and you guys still got mad about it, so I don’t think I’ve done any wrong here.
Who got mad?
