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
I used really like ads. They were creative and sometimes I didn't know the products. Now it's just unnecessary.
100% of the time. Nothing as big a turnoff as over saturation. The neediness…yuck.
Jokes on them, I stay away from all products that advertise to me unless I need said product and go searching for it.
More Dragon Marrow for me fool
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.
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.
Wait there's a podcast app that blocks ads?
where?
80% of the podcasts I have, I haven't listened to because I listen to them at night and the ads being 50% louder than the podcast basically make them annoying jumpscares.
And I haven't found anything that blocks ads on podcasts
Try Metrolist, it's mainly thought for music but you can also ear podcasts and it's totally ad-free, it uses YT music as source and it's totally open source too!
Nice - I see they have a build specifically for obtanium too!
Do they do a sponsorblock thing basically too? I'm not sure how many of my podcasts are on YouTube since I use RSS 😅
No, they don't, i think, i never used it for podcasts but you can just do a feature request on github or discors and they may implement it sooner or later
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
"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.
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.
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.
"Wtf. How did this get past sponsorblock?"
If it were any good, I'll hear about it from something that wasn't an ad block or sponsored message.
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.
Same. I think all companies that sponsor channels are crap. No exceptions. Especially all VPNs and Proton.
I bought a Henson razor and that has been relatively good, everything else in sponsored segments that I have been tempted by seems to be poorly reviewed elsewher however.
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.
Nord and Surfshark are owned by the same company. I imagine those two at least take turns in these cycles
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".
It's more transferring who knows. A "nice browsing history, be a shame if someone found out about it" sort of situation.
SponsorBlock will skip most of the sponsored segments in youtube videos. It's pretty much required if you want to watch youtube now.
Unironically, this is why I unsubbed from NordVPN. I decided there must be some issues with it that I wasn't aware of. Then a few years later I learned there was a major data breach the year before I signed up, but it never made it into my news.
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 the problem is that you think that, while a majority of people think little, if at all. Dumb people and kids for example.
There are enough people who just consume media without reflecting for ads to work, or ads would simply disappear. Companies know how to use statistics.
Fully valid mentality.
Ok
Methinks the brand doth protest too much
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.
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.
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