"Why is their product so bad that they need to advertise it so hard"
Not just that, but if they're throwing sponsorships and ads all over, it means they have a huge advertising budget. That almost always means their profit margins are unusually high.
Meaning they're a ripoff even if the product isn't a scam.
Or it means they just got a bunch of VC money and are looking to chain you up before exploiting the shit out of you.
yeah exactly xD
i feel like advertisement should only be allowed once that you're actually looking for that / a similar product. because otherwise the advertisement is completely irrelevant to you anyways, so why do they show it to you?!?
like if i search for "smartphone charging cable" i can be shown like 50 different brands of smartphone chargers. but if i don't search for it, why would i know about them? i'm not gonna buy a new smartphone charger anytime soon.
Yep.
Absolutely everything that has a huge, pervasive ad campaign is some kind of scam or just shitty product. Not a single good, helpful product was ever advertised so heavily.
Not enough people think this way.
I don't think that it's that people don't think that way, companies know that. It's that the company is hoping that when the customer needs a service the name comes up. It's a play at the human subconscious. How many ads do you watch that you are able to remember you heard of the service from an ad vs just passing discussion. I can only think of NordVPN and a few insurance companies, they rely on that. They hope that when an issue comes up that requires it, that their name pops up without the negative mentality behind it.
I agree though, I go off the mindset that if I am looking for a product and the first thing that comes to mind is "I saw this in an ad" that means there was enough advertisement budget that I could consciously link it to the ad and not the product, which means there is a massive red flag for the product there.
Remove "this way" and you have the entirety of human issues right now. Way too many idiots running around and in power.
Not enough people know that thinking this way does not protect you. It just gives you that pleasant hit of smugness.
I don't know what you're smoking, but knowing of fum is never going to make me buy fum.
The fact they're pushed all over tells me one incontrovertible thing: Their profit margins are high enough to give them that bloated budget, meaning buying a product that's advertised all over is choosing to get ripped off.
The point is not that you'll see fum and pick it because you recall an ad. The point is that you need any fum-type product, don't really care which, and your hand reaches for fum while you're busy thinking about the stupid thing you said in a pub yesterday, or wondering if it's going to rain.
Don't need fum or anything similar? Congrats! You're not the target group. Doesn't mean ads don't work on you.
SponsorBlock will skip most of the sponsored segments in youtube videos. It's pretty much required if you want to watch youtube now.
use mpv https://youtube.com/watch?v=video_id
you need yt-dlp for it and some obscure config file maybe. just search for it.
That skips the youtube ads, but it will still have the sponsored segments that the uploaders put in their videos unless you install the SponsorBlock script for mpv.
someone made a sponsorblock script for mpv https://github.com/po5/mpv_sponsorblock
Fully valid mentality.
Nothing gets me less interested in spending money on a brand than having it constantly advertised to me.
I dunno, maybe I got some gene that inverses the reaction I'm supposed to have, because repeated advertising supposedly works really well.
i think for me it's just that i get angry at the brand if they try to shove it down my throat. like, the arrogance, it feels a lot like violation of consent, if i already made my mind up that i don't like their product, being advertised again feels like something that should make me angry.
Lol sponsor block extension, faq all your native ads and interaction reminders
Same. I think all companies that sponsor channels are crap. No exceptions. Especially all VPNs and Proton.
Ugh. VPNs. They sell you "privacy" via a product that captures all your data and routes it through their network. Then they say "trust us".
The only VPN I’ve ever seen ads for is Nord VPN.
I feel like vpns go in cycles, Nord is the one that's popular now but there's a couple others I've seen.
They aren't buying the ads to convince you to buy it anytime soon. They are buying the ads to plant the seed of the link to their brand with whatever the thing is. That way in the future when you have long forgot about the ad and you are looking for bone broth you might buy theirs because it looks familiar even if you don't know why. This is a time tested process that absolutely works.
If you think you are immune to it then you are fooling yourself and are half way to being the perfect little consumer that they want.
To me, I always get the vibe that the incessant advertising means they're spending too much money on marketing and not enough on actually making a decent product. Maybe thats not true in some cases, but it puts me off of buying their product.
100% of the time. Nothing as big a turnoff as over saturation. The neediness…yuck.
And yet again, the never ending confusion over "why the fuck is everyone choosing to see ads?" question comes up.
When I came here to Lemmy I really thought I'd never se any posts about complaining about ads because all you need to never see one is having the tech literacy just slightly above grandma level.
Yet here we are, with weekly posts like this.
And to be clear, I absolutely agree with the comic but it's most if the comments here that's the issue. Why are you people not even firing a single brain cell to decrease the amount of ads you see? They're clearly an annoyance, but they're also INCREDIBLY easy to get rid of.
A problem with uBlock, SponsorBlock, DeArrow, etc., is that it makes viewing sites and videos by greedy assholes bearable, instead of making us boycott the assholes.
I do use uBlock (and SponsorBlock built into a program, along with a site that let's me avoid YouTube's site); but I really should be boycotting some sites and video channels.
Imma be real calling content creators "greedy assholes" for taking sponsors that are the only way to make it financially viable other than patreon while expecting to consume their content for 0 just sounds like peak entitlement
Unless you do actually support creators directly in which case go ahead. And I do in fact recommend just not watching people that you judge to actually be greedy assholes, never once regretted that.
I'm torn there. Im from the old internet where we all just fucked about and had fun. I dont think any of the end-users asked them to quit their jobs and invest their money into editing equipment.
Obviously they need paid for their work, but why is it work? What happened here?
Consider that there are instances where it's not practical to remove ads. I could get a new podcasts app with Sponsorblock integrated, but I already have the app I like all set up and I'm fine with skipping them manually. Some may filter through but so what.
Same with YT videos with Sponsorblock where you're early and you're the one doing people the favor. You have to listen at least part of the ad to mark the time block.
Or sometimes Twitch breaks uBO and you don't realize until you're served an ad and you have to wait for the devs to fix it. There's no simple way of getting around it if you enjoy certain streamers.
It's not that we don't try, but not everyone is capable or interested in insulating their entertainment. There are many factors at play.
"Wtf. How did this get past sponsorblock?"
RAID: Shadow Legends
Dragon Marrow is the hip new bone broth, but with added taurine, caffeine, and electrolytes for that perfect Energy Stew
Jokes on them, I stay away from all products that advertise to me unless I need said product and go searching for it.
Hey guys, I just want to tell you I've been having a "blast" playing RAID SHADOW LEGENDS! The game that plays itself when you're not even there!
I remember on Nintendo Switch was some kirby game. I had been moderately excited for the game. So when it came out I tried the demo. I'm glad I did. Now, Kirby games have always been known to be easy. Maybe too easy. But this game took it too far. It gives you 3 AI friends, or real friends can control those characters with multiplayer.
I played the first level, which is the whole demo, and it was fine. So then I tried playing the demo again, to see if I think it would have been better if I played with real people. I set the controller down, and the game played itself. I'm not even touching the controller, and I beat the demo.
I decided not to buy the game, because it plays itself.
I gave into this recently, even though I should know better.
I saw many ads for Troll Gummy Pops, a frozen version of their candy, which I think is alright. And I’d just recently had some subpar fruit popsicles that were just OK, but I thought why not, I’ll try something new.
I saw the box at WinCo and it was plastered with ads about something something Xbox, something something Forza. Whatever, so it’s not the generic WinCo brand or the other boring brands I typically get.
Worst case scenario I don’t like it, best case scenario I have a new treat to treat myself to every now and again.
No, the worst case scenario is I’m so off-put by the texture of a gummy popsicle that the texture and experience—paired with the over-the-top sugar, causes me to throw up.
Never again.
Is this a neurodivergence thing?
I have no source, but I swear I found some study that negatively correlates neurodivergence with advertising effectiveness.
I get the sentiment and I feel the same. But let's not pretend that ads won't work on us. For example what's the first VPN provider that comes to your mind? Even bad press is good press in a way
Mullvad
More Dragon Marrow for me fool
Gamer Sups. I only vaguely know what they are (some sort of food?), but the number of ads I see for it make me think I don't want to know any more about it.
Its powdered energy drink powder and a few other related products.
I personally rather like it then again I am addicted ti caffeine
Only sponsor I ever bought anything from was Henson for a safety razor. Got one before they made more of a sponsor push. Honestly no regrets so far, it's a lot better than the cheap safety razor I had before.
I'm yet to find a razor that doesn't turn me into Charlie Kirk every morning.
Methinks the brand doth protest too much
If it were any good, I'll hear about it from something that wasn't an ad block or sponsored message.
I used really like ads. They were creative and sometimes I didn't know the products. Now it's just unnecessary.
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