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I feel like I've trained my brain to have a mental adblocker. I see ads in public, but it's like my brain intentionally refuses to process the information they're imposing upon me as soon as it can identify that it's an ad.
It's not like a literal black box in my vision or something obviously. But it's just a reflex to.... not think about it, at all.
Tbh I don't mind ad reads from youtubers or anything. I'll usually skip them, but they don't feel super corporate or targeted (and sometimes they're funny)
Had a thought while driving past a few of those electric distraction boards, maybe this is the place where AI/smart glass could be of use. A database of known boards plus some object recognition, have it draw a black box over the offending board that could shift as you go by...
AFK ad blocker?
Or like they have for pictures, erase to background, just replace the billboard with sky or whatever is behind it
I swear when I mute the ads on YouTube, the skip button shows up faster. But probably just my brain playing tricks on me.
Advertisements are the devil. Time theft, propaganda, etc. They'll take as much of your life as possible and waste it on watching car commercials.
I will never willingly watch any advertisement. Do my best to block in all situations.
Its very disappointing that the outcome of capitalism and widespread enshitification is the need to have an adversarial relationship with nearly every company.
I'm still waiting for a startup to sell a bed that advertises to you in your sleep.
Advertising will be met with outright hostility.
Can count on one hand the number of TV ads that influenced me to buy a product. Those have gone the way of the dodo these past few years, so if I can't surf away from them, I just mute them or fire up a console
Sincere question since I am unsure myself: At what point does advertising cross the line from a way to fairly support creators and platforms, to malignant advertising practices meant to take advantage of their audience?
People in general must be really stupid (including myself) to still fall for the old $2.99 and think "Hey, that's only two dollars!". The advertisers are getting better every year but what they are selling is getting worse every year. I recently saw a drug advert on tv and it stated that we have a pill. Call your doctor to see if this pill is good for you. There was no mention in the advert of what the pill may or may not do. This is the old "monkeys flinging crap against the wall to see what sticks".
In Canada drug ads are not allowed to tell you what a drug treats as part of the ad. You can only advertise the price, quantity and name. Its a big reason there are so many fewer drug ads compared to the us. https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-health-products/marketing-drugs-devices/illegal-marketing/prescription-drugs.html#a6
Everyone should install Pihole on their router.
a lot of people want to be told what to think (because they can't think for themselves) and advertisement tells them what to think. that's why a lot of people don't bother with advertisement.
Ive always had a neutral attitude to gambling, Im not into it but its fine if people do it responsibly. But with all these ads from phone gambling apps, it's seems like an aggressively predatory relationship between the casinos and gamblers and offer only lip service response to gambling addiction. I now am very firmly against further legalization of gambling and think that advertising should be illegal.
Ads are basically someone rubbing diarrhea directly on your eyeballs
