And connect on Facebook and Twitter. And tap "yes" would you like the app to track you and personalize ads. And buy things through tiktok.
We are the odd ones I guess
I'd say we're the ones that know how to use adblockers and know where and how to shop online.
Not odd, just not sheep.
id say thats generous by which I mean we're all of us sheep to a certain extent
That's fair. The main differentiation is where our ovine behaviors tend towards..
Transparency of all aspects of my life open to the tech industry?
Ehhh, not so much.
I’ve just put the batteries in a toy a relative bought from TikTok. It’s some drawing pad where you draw on it then press a button and your drawing’s supposed to glow. It’s a total piece of shit, the drawing barely glows and it takes ages to clean. It’ll probably go in the bin tomorrow, I’ve already warned my wife to take the batteries out first.
I offer setting up adblocking to friends and they’re like no im alright thanks WTF.
I had some family members staying with us a few nights. I "warned" them, that my WiFi is using a PiHole and should block (some) ads. Just as a heads up if e.g. an app or a website would act up so that they could report that to me.
They asked me, why anyone would want to block useful ads...
What are useful ads? People really weird me out.
People like to be shown relevant products to their interests to facilitate consumption of products. Seriously, these people exist and have told me such.
I mean I get it in principle, but that's not how ads work. And those products that might seem relevant are either cheap crap or induce a artificial desire to own.
"How will I know what I want if I don't see ads?"
the conversions I've had would drive a lesser man insane.
I have a nephew that when asked what he wanted for Christmas one year replied, "I don't know, I'll have ro watch some commercials first"
I use YouTube sometimes with the kids I work with. For like a solid week in November, every single ad was for the new Furby. I mute ads when I can and skip them as soon as the option becomes available, but the ads made me cringe (the new one looks freaky. It's long. Like the original wasn't nightmare-inducing enough.)
I was worried the ad would influence the kid. But thankfully, he showed no interest in it when asked what he wanted for Christmas. In fact when the ads started getting replaced, he made some comment about Furby going bye-bye.
It also helps that he looks up to me, and at some point months ago I started saying, "Boo, ads" whenever they came up. Now he thinks it's funny to boo at commercials. It makes me smile. :)
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People be morons
I remember when adblock was released and you had to manually block ads.
I took great joy in going to ad heavy pages and blocking all ads manually, it was very cathartic.
We are living in Idiocracy.
Useful ads
Wtf? I'd sooner believe in the Tooth Fairy than the existence of a useful ad.
I don't offer. If I have a minute with a computer alone, adblock is going in there.
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The one weird thing that everyone seems to just accept is smart tvs with ads. I use my smart tv for many things, but disconnected from the internet and hooked into a little entertainment Linux machine that does all the processing. I can’t fathom taking the raw experience.
Consumers are lazy and brain rotted, too much effort to build an htpc or do anything that protect yourselfs and your family's data when the TV can just do it all for you, who cares that it's a literal piece of spyware ad riddled garbage.
I guess I shouldn't be blaming the consumer here, since it's obviously the predatory capitalist company is at fault. But still, I think most people are fucking dumb.
“…too much effort to build an htpc or do anything that protect yourselfs and your family's data…”
So you change your own oil and do your own brakes, right? Cook all your meals, mow your lawn yourself, hand wash your dishes, and compost your food scraps?
No?
You’re just lazy and brain rotted; it’s too much effort for you to do those things.
(The point is the normal person has no idea and no interest in building a Home Theater PC (HTPC) nor in maintaining one, and I get that. Most people don’t brew their own beer, if it can/will come out superior to what’s in the store. Please just want to come home, sit down, and turn on something that works.
Personally I don't fundamentally despise the concept of advertising. I think it's acceptable for people and companies to share information about a potentially great product or service that they're offering, on reasonable terms.
The main problem for me is: advertising went too far and abandoned most safeguards. Advertising in 2025 is essentially manipulation and brain washing. Most ads don't give you any information about a product or service whatsoever. Just some celebrity saying it's great. What is this supposed to accomplish if not manipulating people into mindlessly paying for a thing they know nothing about?
I believe all advertising exists to manipulate people. Behaviour change is a key aspect of marketing, from how things are kept at a store shelf, to putting the right hoarding on the right street, it's all done to guide consumer choice in a profitable way.
Advertising was never about giving you information, it was to make you feel cigarettes are cool or you need an more expensive toothbrush to be more confident. Advertising moved away from giving you information to 'connecting with consumers on an emotional level' decades before the Internet.
While yes information age has made advertising a lot more effective than it was 25 years ago, but brands were still trying to get you get the most money out of you back then, same as today, only their tools of doing so have improved vastly.
Every malware infection and online scam I've dealt with in the last 15 years has used advertising as an attack vector. I block everything.
Exactly. I'd be much more ok with a standardised block of text and maybe a picture. No music, no animation, basic machine voiceover if any audio.
My favourite advertisements (the ones I'm most ok with) are podcast ad reads, because they never gave music or sound effects or crass images, it's just the voice making the podcast reading some text. And they're personalised based on the context of the podcast, no personal information needed.
And with ads baked into windows, you're paying for them.
That was the biggest flabbergast for me when I took care of a few work machines recently, after not opening a Windows machine for years.
This is part of the reason they don’t want you to own your own computer anymore.
Not just pc's. More and more electronics are going that way. Two weeks ago I was at a friend and they activated their Google TV for the first time. Bam first thing you see is ads for Amazon prime. They didn't bat an eye even though they just paid €80 to be shown ads in their living room. It's only going to get worse. We really need to grow the community to open source firmware for all electronics. (not just because of the ads tho)
God, the modern Google TV launcher is so fucking ass. Ads every fucking where.
Last week I was setting up my box and the first thing it showed me was a Netflix ad that I think contained spoilers for Squid Game??? (I don't watch that show but it looked like a serious spoiler)
Get your friend Projectivity Launcher.
Cursed timeline…
I visited someone with a 5 year old child recently and they were watching minecraft videos (specifically for child audiences) with 2 min ads every 10 min, that cant be good
I think most of the population has simply been conditioned to accept and even expect advertisements to be a normal part of everyday life.
Maybe it's a situation where ignorance is bliss, to not have ads pull your attention away from what you're doing, and not feel like they are violating your personal space and resources.
But that's also part of living modern life on auto pilot like The Shareholders prefer. Work, consume, engage with content, repeat!
Seeing people click and sit through minutes of insanely obnoxious ads feels so dystopian to me
Ads on a website? Unlock minus
Ads on your computer? That's not YOUR computer. Install Linux and get your computer back
Must be rough.
Haven't been, don't know.
What pisses me off regularly is educators playing youtube content for kids and having them listen to and/or watch a minute of ads before it starts. Some education, that.
If you want to show me a youtube video and a fuckin ad starts playing, we gon have problems
There have been some times where all my efforts failed and YouTube still showed me an ad. I realised that i'd rather not watch the video than the ad.
I won't even wear clothing that overtly displays a brand name
Wait until you see the clothing most people wear... and what they dress thier kids in. They even pay for the privilege.
I gave my mother one of my old thinkpads I used to use at school, and on setting up her account (fydeOS btw, since it’s perfect for what she uses computers for), I installed an adblocker so she doesn’t see those scam supplement ads she was always convinced were factual, and it’s worked flawlessly.
I view advertisements as attacks on my consciousness. Advertisers are my adversaries, and I do whatever I can to defend myself from them.
True and obviously a phone, a TV, a console, etc are computers.
They allow their fridges to show advertisements
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