Mildly Infuriating

This is the key.

Ads don’t care if you like or don’t like them, as long as you remember them.

The worst thing an ad can do is be forgettable

Someone should. I'm sure it has never been tried.

Surely companies will ignore decades of psychological studies and own marketing experience for a random article full of made up numbers.

It's almost like there's a multi billion industry based on it!

Does anybody actually PLAY raid shadow legends, or is it just an ad for nothing? I don't think I've ever seen the actual game play or heard anyone ever mention playing it.

This is the way, I am amazed how many people just rawdog the internet on a daily basis.

I agree with this. Ads contaminate your mind, so make sure to use ad blockers. But also help your friends set up ad blockers, because if their minds are contaminated, it will spread to you.

I've already won by not buying their shit.

I've bought competitors out of spite.

Also later in time when one is making a choice for a kind of product one doesn't usually buy, one might have forgotten their dislike for a brand due to their excessive use of advertising and yet their subconscious is still giving them a feeling of familiarity when they see that brand's name on a product which makes it more likely that they'll chose it over other options that don't feel as familiar.

Most advertising nowadays is meant to affect subconscious impulses which will do their thing with no cognitive effort, whilst the position the OP holds (and which I myself try to) is conscious and requires cognitive effort to maintain.

There is a third category here: people who also hate ads but pay to turn off the ads, recognizing that a service takes money to operate. You’re not the only one who hates ads, and if you simply eschew them, that’s great. But we have a lot of people here who want to get everything for nothing, and that’s just not a tenable plan.

I mean look at the entitlement in the post. “Your” ads but “my” video.

That baffles me too. Being annoyed by an obnoxious ad instantly puts the brand in my naughty, to-boycott list.

Like, if I ever need to use a VPN, guess who I'll go out of my way to never, ever use? That's right NordVPN, go fuck yourself! I've never used you and I already hate you.

How do people care so little that it's still a beneficial strategy for brands?

"You are without a doubt the worst product I’ve ever heard of.”

“But you have heard of me."

called the Mere Exposure Effect - it mostly works

...is what the 90% market leader says, who profits from it the most.

If the insurance firm has a lot of money to throw at constant adds, then odds are good that they aren't paying out premiums for their customers.

you just gave them a free ad

blocked from orbit

/not really; merely admonished from uncomfortable chair