I don’t use adblock just so I don’t have to see ads, I use adblock so that every time I view a news article I don’t have 50 different domains grabbing my browser fingerprint to build a profile on me that can be used to bypass my 4th amendment right to privacy.
Ad Block already exists on TV:
Yeah it’s just annoying to have to keep paying attention anyway so you know when to unmute. So you end up watching a little bit of silent ads anyway.
Depends. On some Smart TVs, if you try to mute advertisements on certain streaming platforms, it won’t let you. It will only go to half volume.
Life is hell
Fuckin right
Who they fuck watches broadcast TV? Back to bed Grandpa
It doesn’t say the TV is only broadcast. Lots of people have smart TVs and use streaming services that also force ads upon you.
I can’t help all stupid people
I’m watching the France match right now on live TV. Putting a cane on the wish list for my 38th this summer.
That’s totally the same😂
So what are you saying. Get the overpriced premium subscriptions or pirate?
Nah, I have decades of practice filtering out ads and the old habits come right back when I have to endure them.
I’m so thankful my parent’s rule was that we muted TV commercials. Crazy how many people don’t think to just mute youtube ads and pay attention to something else for 30 seconds.
At a certain point it becomes cult-like and you reel in disgust.
Actually it’s the opposite. It pisses me off so much when I see an ad now.
How is that the opposite? Is that not like the whole point of the meme? That you can’t tune it out and that sucks?
I can’t even stand that “corporate enthusiasm” tone anymore. It’s just fake.
Yeah, getting away from ads after a lifetime’s exposure just highlights how disruptive they are when you see them again. Especially since most have negative value to the consumer.
What kind of dumb fucking oh you are worse off cause you are avoiding ads bullshit. That’s dumber than saying you are missing out on pop culture. You spent time on this meme and now im commenting on it. SAD
I don’t think that was the message at all. Where does it imply that you’re worse off? It’s just a (in my experience) true statement about how ads are even more annoying when you’re not so accustomed to tuning them out (like we were in the cable TV days)
Was this a spirial?
I grew up in the time when you watched live television and Mom made use mute all advertisements because she hated how loud they were. (Advertisements were broadcast louder than the programs) When I was in someone else’s home that didn’t mute them I don’t feel like it made me pay attention to the messaging. That was still time to talk, get a drink, or use the facilities.
There was actually a successful campaign to get the FCC to force the volume of ads to be the same as the programming.
But that’s the FCC so it only applies to broadcast TV. As soon as they could do it with streaming content, they went right back to blasting the volume for ads. Because fuck the spirit of the law, this is capitalism.
I had a really advanced CRT that had a Commercial button in the remote. It’d auto-set a 30-second timer (+30 for every subsequent press) and you could freely swap channels. Timer expires, it switches back to the channel you were watching originally.
I don’t run ad block because they’re showing me ads, I run it because creepy fuckers are trying to collect everything I’ve ever done online and store it forever.
Bullshit.
Eh, not really. I barely see ads and I’m fine tuning out the ones I do see.
Granted, I’m not the type to go on those really dramatic anti-advertising tirades you see around.
Ads are supposed to target our cognitive unconscious.
Think about a car advertisement. Its not supposed to make you buy the car, it’s supposed to make you aware of the car and what it represents. Its mass imposition of a dezired emotional connection to the producers and that which they promote.
They are conditioning us through imposition.
And you know that the masses are bombarded with it, so you know the overton window is shifted towards corporations. Anyone could challenge such an imposition, but it is not a single one, but thousand upon thousand.
Society are conditioned by capital through imposition.
When we see an imposition, we can either let it condition us or react to it.
By reacting, we entertain their framing which can make the imposition more effective.
There’s always someone saying something like this in any “I hate ads” kind of thread but I gotta say that it sounds like the sort of shit marketers want everyone to believe because they want to drive demand for them.
I’m calling bullshit and don’t believe that marketers have unlocked any kind of mind control powers that work on everyone including those hostile to what they are trying to say and that our subconscious are so easy to manipulate once we’ve become aware of those manipulations.
Everyone has mindcontrol. I can even force you into thinking about a house being covered with butter. You see?
Every ad I block is one fewer ad I have to see, so it’s a win either way
Use adnauseum to burn advertisers cash
What kind of stupid take is this? I avoid ads because I find them annoying. It doesn’t supercharge the ones I can’t avoid.
It just seemed like an observation to me. One that personally rings true.
I didn’t read it as being pro-ad or anti-adblock. Just more of like, “have you noticed this?” type thing.
Was honestly surprised when I saw that so many people here are taking this to be some kind of anti ad blocker message. I just don’t see it.
Ads succeed when you “tune them out” so that they enter your unconscious mind, and then when you’re thinking, “I’m hungry, what’s for dinner,” the product comes to mind.
The best defence against this kind of inception is to consciously think about the ad that’s playing, and think, “I don’t want <X>”
By using adblock, you reduce your exposure to ads, and reduce the number of times you need to consciously resist them.
Q’s take is just wrong.
I use a vpn that builds in Adblock, and only stream ad free services. I see very few ads in general so when I am subjected to them it’s a visceral reaction. It makes me hate the product intensely. That seems to align with what you’re describing.
I also tend to overthink purchases and research them if there is not a suitable local option. I’m not just ordering the first thing that comes to mind, I’m picky.
It’s two fold: ads are annoying, and they actually work to slowly make you less happy without the advertised product.
I’ve never seen a Taco Bell add and thought I was missing out. I’m not suddenly craving plastic looking food.
thats what they want you to believe
I am unhappy that the product exists in any way, regardless of my having it or not. The only thing that would make me desire the object more, is if it kills billionaires. Always tempting, those ones.
I do watch television. The Finnish public broadcaster, so no ads. Really good use for tax money, people tend to say. The streaming service is incredible considering it’s free and has no ads.
That sounds like a dream. I think public broadcasting is an excellent use of tax
dollarsmoney.A good reason to learn Finnish. Any downsides I should be aware of?
Dunno about downsides, but on the upside, once you can speak it, you’ll be an absolute ace behind the wheel of a car in snow and ice.
