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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.
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.
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
My hate for AI is growing exponentially every day [stonks]
I honestly can't remember the last time I saw an ad. pi-hole + ublock origin. Never see them at all.
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)
Yep, not on my watch they won't. 😎
Jokes doubly on them, I don't have the money to buy their stuff.
YOU DONT HAVE ENOUGH FINGERS.
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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.
where have i seen that before?

Couldn't predict the horror of ad overlays!

Well, fuck that.

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.

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.
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.
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.


The future of advertising is AI powered ad-blockers
I have to say, minority report really did a good job portraying parts of the future.
Fuck AI and fuck advertising. Useless system reinforced by an even more useless technique.
Question: What does AI advertise to you if you want nothing and have no money?
IMO they will not ever make ads with your family’s faces because it will turn people off. Instead, they will make a fake AI family just like your family that you can relate to but won’t realize is actually supposed to be you. That is what they do now with their targeted demos but there’s only so many ads you can make the traditional way. AI will enable making hundreds of variations of the same ad.
One of the reasons I went all out in blocking ads was because they were already doing this over a decade ago with stuff with text based on your location or search history. Hit singles in your area listed your city for example.
So yeah, obviously they were going to keep going down that route with AI.
I don't need your ads, goodbye (ad blocked and burned).
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!
Got bad news for you advertisers...
The future sucks.
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!
