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The future is no ads.
I’ve been blocking ads for like 30 years. I see so little advertising I feel like an alien.
I wholeheartedly agree, all ads are cancer and should be removed before they spread.
I think the worst thing about them is they're all kinda bad too. No, scratch that, the worst part is that they still work.
Isn't it cool that we let companies commit psychological warfare against us?
Heck, the present is ublock origin!
In an geological scale of time, humanity will very soon cease to exist and this will be undisputed truth
Oh, I wish that were true, but things are not this certain.
Oh look, yet another reason to use an ad blocker.
We really need to teach everyone to use ad blockers. Ads have not existed on "my" internet since the 2000s...
I'm always horrified if I'm on a browser without a blocker, the web just so much more distracting and intense.
Nowadays I'm even starting to find it annoying on a browser with adblock, but without NoScript ! Quite a bit of nonsense disappears when you take the few seconds to only enable the scripts a page actually needs
Also, YouTube specifically is a horrible experience without an extension like UnTrap to turn like 75% of the buttons off.
The world would be so much better if marketing and advertising were outright banned from the internet.
Not just the internet
I try to shy away from extremely hateful, violent thoughts but I genuinely think that great suffering needs to be visited upon the demon that came up with putting advertisements in gas pumps.
My hate for AI is growing exponentially every day [stonks]
Well, fuck that.
I honestly can't remember the last time I saw an ad. pi-hole + ublock origin. Never see them at all.
I need to update my pi-hole but I’m terrified to.. I’ve been using it for more than five years and it’s been a hands-off champion; I’m afraid if I updated it’ll get all fucked up and I’ll have to reinstall.
I've had mine probably 5-6 years and I mostly forget about it. I probably update it once a year. It really is a set it and forget it piece of kit.
I was so scared to get it set up… it was my first Linux experience other than an Ubuntu box in 2007 or so. It was soooo much easier than I expected. I have it as my DHCP server tho, so if it goes down, my house has no web. I reeeeeally should update the system and my block lists though…
if there is a service that doesn’t work with my adblockers, i won’t use it.
Jokes on them, I don't see ads at all :D
(Ublock Origin, Librewolf, Ironfox, GrapheneOS, Sponsorblock, Grayjay saving the day)
where have i seen that before?

Couldn't predict the horror of ad overlays!

Personalised my foot. When I browsed youtube logged into my google account all I got was generic TV ads for womens hair care products. I am a bald male.
So I get a sprite battle between Santa Coke and Pepsi Man?

Pepsi Man Theme - Man on the Internet
PEPSIMAN
Hear the cry of carbonation
Echoing throughout the nation
When the world needs hydration
Salvation comes in a can!
I'm not against ads in principle. The advertisers are paying the bill for stuff I consume. Great.
For that effort, they get a chance at my wallet. And to be honest, making me aware of a business or product is indeed a way to get me interested in what they sell. I do prefer the ads to be relevant instead of always useless.
That being said, it's currently preferable to use a blocker and let the people who don't know how to use blockers subsidize my ad-free ways.

Jokes on them because there has to be a product that exists that's for me in the first place to have AI generated ads for it.

Advertising doesn't work on me. And it's not because I'm some ultra-savvy "you can't trick me" smart guy (I am but that's not the point)... It's that advertising doesn't speak to me in the way I need to be spoken to. What I need to hear is how a product is going to change my life or improve it, and advertising doesn't do that. All the subtleties about lifestyle, self-worth, being accepted by others, that's just wasted effort on me.
I hate advertising so much it has a reverse action on me. If I remember an ad, it turns me away from the product.
I usually ignore advertising. I use all the blockers on my browsers, I don't have or watch regular TV service. I don't have Cable. I don't use Netflix or Amazon streaming.
If I go somewhere and notice an over exposure of an advert - like an entire wall with 30 posters all for Gatoraide, guess what goes on my list of things to never buy. I mean, I never buy coke, pepsi, McD, or the common offenders of overblown adverts. Nothing ends up on my shit list faster than ads like this.
I have to say, minority report really did a good job portraying parts of the future.
show your true colors!
Goes to show their trike colors
We are liars, lying is all we do all day, every day, for money
Well thanks for letting me know!
Is it only me that finds personalised / targeted ads to be very poorly personalised and targeted ?
You just bought a thing you need one of. Let me now show you ads of that same thing forever.


Fuck AI and fuck advertising. Useless system reinforced by an even more useless technique.
The future of advertising is AI powered ad-blockers
Question: What does AI advertise to you if you want nothing and have no money?
I can't imagine the cost.
Pay per view pay and cost is very low. Per click is better but still not a lot. Using AI world mean investing significantly more money.
Seems like it would be a money dump.
It might be the future but it's probably not very effective given how much lower quality the ads become as a result of AI.