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this post embodies my allergic reaction to ads tbh

@ShadowJonathan jo is taking sponsorships from ublock origin now 😔

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I bet you're Gen X.

Stop trying to sell me things you fuck!

@Uair im from 2000, idk if thats gen X

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@ShadowJonathan wait not everyone cusses out their TV when the ads come on?

@redsad @ShadowJonathan

Yeah, anymore turning on the radio becomes one continious act of dodging mental hijacking attempts. One hand tied to the up/down button so I can be lulled into 3 minutes of something with a tune. In this commercial hellscape not consuming mindlessly is an act of rebellion.

@OvertonDoors @redsad i just don't give ads that level of respect, I only listen or watch things without ads or I just won't watch them

I don't even dignify ads with my alertness to silence them, they can just fuck off with the medium they've infected and grabbed, it's become worthless to me the moment that medium got unskippable ads

@ShadowJonathan you can eliminate almost all of them with some effort but it really annoys me that you can't do anything about the ones in the bus (stops) and the train (stations), apart from moving

which means either to a cool place like Skåne that has actively taken action to prevent advertising in public spaces; or to the middle of nowhere where advertising is not profitable, like in rural Scotland where bus stops are just cute wee wooden shelters and billboards are a foreign concept

And for most ppl neither is really an option:/

@helenaisvibing @ShadowJonathan that’s when you get some slaps and cover up the ads

@ShadowJonathan @OvertonDoors @redsad I've basically stopped watching TV and listening to the radio, because these days it feels like there's 5 minutes of ads for each 5 minutes of content.

I get the important news the next day, at work. If it's important enough, people will be talking about it.

I only watch video and listen to music from sources that either have no ads by default (AKA my NAS), or where I can adblock them to oblivion.

And that same adblock is permanently turned on network-wide for all sites, it's IMO the only sane way to be online.

If it's an unskippable ad or a "we'll only let you see this if you pay is or let us track you" site, guess what, the information you're carrying is always available elsewhere.

You do NOT have a say on how I consume content, or what I'm exposed to when I consume it.

The more people realize that, the faster we'll get a better Internet for everyone.

@ShadowJonathan I will get a case, if someone tells me. they work in advertising

@ShadowJonathan Watching YouTube got so much better since I installed SponsorBlock. With uBlock Origin I have no ads at all. This works on mobile too. Get the Firefox browser for android and you can install uBlock and SponsorBlock there too.

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Imagine using the web with no ad blocker... I know some people who do this and I just can't understand it. I had to do it once recently and I almost threw my computer across the room.

@wakingrufus @ShadowJonathan more than a decade ago that was always my experience at corporate training courses where the browsers were plain IE or Chrome if you were lucky.

I dread to think what it's like today for most people who don't install an ad blocker by default.

I'm old enough to remember using Netscape before you needed an adblocker...

@wakingrufus @ShadowJonathan Some of my co workers don't use an adblocker. How can they live like this?

@wakingrufus @ShadowJonathan

Imagine using the web with no ad blocker..

most teenagers..

they know no other life..

Apple is nobody's friend here.. at least not their consumers. One of many reasons why I don't buy their products.. ever..

@wakingrufus @ShadowJonathan my work computer has no adblocking. I'm a teacher and use YouTube regularly. Have to wait 6-30 seconds to show students relevant content. I try and load it up at the start of the day but that relies on no computer issues. I want to punch the screen in every time and my students don't understand it because they have been seeing ads in everything since their eyes started working.

@ShadowJonathan the thing is, they still work. you don’t have to like them, heck, many are designed to be as obnoxious as possible, because it doesn’t matter if you hate them — you just need to connect the brand with a product once you think about it. If it did that, it worked. that’s all it’s supposed to do, that’s all the whole industry tries to achieve.

Hate works just as well as love, as long as it’s memorable. Even if you make an effort to avoid the product brand because of the ad, it still means you memorized it and someone else won’t have that fortitude or cares that much. If you think “tissues” and immediately think of Tempo (or whatever), it worked. If you remember the ad but not what it advertised, it was accidental art but a failure, professionally speaking.

I’ve worked in this shit industry until it broke me. Never again.

And, yes, I refuse to browse the net without an adblocker. This whole system of monetization should be long dead.

@ShadowJonathan yeah and if something is advertised too aggressively - i will actively avoid that thing and look for alternatives every chance i get

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@melioristicmarie this is really really good

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from sean tejaratchi (l.a. woohoo california!)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Tejaratchi

to bansky.

to you all.

feel it, love it, be it, fight back, punch up as hard as you can as often as you can. ❤️‍🔥

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