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:
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
At a certain point it becomes cult-like and you reel in disgust.
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’m watching the France match right now on live TV. Putting a cane on the wish list for my 38th this summer.
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.
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
Was this a spirial?
Actually it’s the opposite. It pisses me off so much when I see an ad now.
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.
They actually plan on ads being tuned out, it’s more about choking out the presence of competitors than it is actually convincing the audience that their product is worth while; y’know, like a weed.
Either way, I don’t fall for it because I just make sure to type in “Reddit,” right after my search for a product I want so that I get honest human reviews and not ads. 😏
Lolz who is going to tell orioler25?
Do you people actually need “/s” to not be annoying? I added the fucking smug face and everything.
Ah yes, starting out with you people, the nicest way to do things. In case you didn’t realize plain text loses intonation and body language. Makes it hard to understand certain implications.
It doesn’t if you aren’t just dying to catch someone being stupid. I don’t care about being nice, this is the first time in my entire life that someone has admitted to expecting me to be nice online. /s
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.
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.
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?
Bullshit.
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.
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?
You’d think so, but no! My only real ad surfaces anymore are YouTube (sponsored spots), podcasts, and billboards. I am very good at skipping podcast ads and sponsor spots on YouTube, but when I don’t I mostly just fume about how I can’t for whatever reason (usually when I’m washing dishes and my hands are wet). Billboards are easy to ignore most of the time, too, because on my regular routes I know where they are and have apparently trained myself that there’s not anything of interest there.
YouTube has gotten a lot better since I started using “sponsorblock”, it automatically skips sponsor segments.
I don’t use sponsorblock myself (though I don’t begrudge anyone who does). For a couple of reasons:
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I don’t trust SponsorBlock necessarily, since it’s community-noted. It’s become clear that I have different opinions than others about what constitutes a sponsor spot. uBlock can be more certain about what constitutes an ad or not, since it comes from a different domain than the content, but with sponsor spots, they’re part of the same content stream.
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Sometimes host-read ad spots are actually clever, or integral to the video in some way.
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I have a lot more sympathy for the individual creator who gets all of that money than I do for the trillion-dollar multinational conglomerate.
In any case, I am typically pretty good at skipping ahead. And if the sponsor segments get too onerous, I tend to just stop watching that channel.
EDIT TO ADD: I’ve been informed that SponsorBlock now does a good job of solving the first problem by categorizing sponsor spots. I’ll have to try it out again.
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i use ublock origin.
You can use both, I do.
Noutube on fdroid also does this automagically.
i adblock youtube ads, its impossible without it.
Yep, I block the embedded ads from YouTube, too. I don’t use SponsorBlock to automatically skip the ad spots that the creator put in themselves, though. Sometimes they’re actually clever, but more to the point I have a lot more sympathy for the individual creator who gets all of that money than I do for the trillion-dollar multinational conglomerate.
You can configure which categories to skip, so you could enable ad spots, yet still skip intros, or non-music portions of music videos, that kind of thing. There are 10 different categories.
Oh, interesting! The last time I tried it was long, long ago, so I didn’t realize that they had expanded that configuration. Or maybe I just don’t remember seeing it.
