Sometimes I'll start to notice ads for things I already use and it makes me want to use them less. I do sometimes find myself more distracted by ads in public tho
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Interestingly growing up with the internet and alongside the growth of internet based advertising I kinda inadvertently developed a sort of mental adblock. I kinda don't see or hear them even as they're happening, I feel like one of those Westworld robots "Doesn't look like anything to me". I think everyone's kinda got one of those even from all the tv and radio ads before the internet and still today, hence needing to justify so much marketing research and creative work to stand out but it seems I reached some saturation point a long time ago and now I'd have to actually choose to concentrate to even perceive an ad happening.
This has survived despite probably 15 years of ublock origin use. I definitely noticed when I use a machine without it that there's like impediments to navigation if the web, like road blocks but I'm so trained to close the ad or leave the page that all I ever see is the x button.
Yeah, I still listen to the radio occasionally. Then I get an ad with a siren, I call up my friend John at the station and let him know, and I stop listening for a month.
Yeah, but not really... If I hear annoying commercial (that would usually be just another commercial) that somehow slips through an ad blocker, I'll hate it with a passion of 10000 burning suns. I'll go extra distance to actively avoid that product...
On the other hand, my dad will sing the jingle whole day and then buy the item next time he sees it. -_-
I've almost seen zero ads in about 15 years. I use all the types of adblockers: browser extensions and dns-based. I don't use traditional TV or movie theatres. I don't read printed magasines. So really, really close to no ads in 15 years. Yesterday I went to the fueling station with my car: there was nobody else. They changed the station so now, there's screens showing ads and really loud audio. Since there was nobody else, I could hear all 8 pump's ads screaming at the same time. It was really dystopian and overstimulating. I only managed to put like 5 litres and I couldn't stand it, I was screaming at the screen to stop shouting at me. I did pay my 5 litres that I put in, but I left for another gas station. I will never return to that one, which was my usual one.
Find the speakers, take a safety pin, poke through the speaker holes. Problem solved.
Luckily the stations near me that play ads only play ads when you're actively pumping gas.
Of course they sound horrific now that all the speakers are blown, you can't even tell what the ad is trying to say.
Gas pump ads are the worst. I stopped going to a station because they couldn't be muted, and they're the ads that scream at you or brain rot craft videos. I wouldn't have minded so much if was only the "good news" segment or usefull PSAs. But yelling at me at 7am to buy beef jerky is not okay.
If a person came up to you at the pup and offered a flyer, that's okay. But if they started screaming at you to buy their shit, that'd be harassment. Gas pumps should not be allowed to "harass" people.
Second button from the top on the right side.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
And when it doesn’t, an air can upside-down in the speaker grille leaves no evidence.
Fuck that leave evidence. I want them to know it was me who destroyed their ad machine
Did you forget that your car has a license plate and registration lol
Sometimes I go to Reddit and then proceed to click on every ad like an idiot
As someone with ADHD, nah.
I don't want to be blind to it. I want to be able to snipe it from ten kilometers away.
God I feel this. If I'm at someone else's house, or a bar and free to air is on, I' get so distracted. I think it's partly the ADHD partly the fact every ad is brand new to me. Distraction is the
So distracted they couldn't finish the thought
When I was eating dinner with my ex we liked to put on a youtube video to watch. We always did it on my phone even tho the screen is smaller because I use YouTube vanced, so we didn't have to watch any ads or sponsored segments. Anytime we would have to use her phone cause mine was empty or something I annoyed the hell out of me that we had to watch two ads just for a 16 minute video
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's two fold: ads are annoying, and they actually work to slowly make you less happy without the advertised product.
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"By not drinking antifreeze, you've just re-sensitized yourself so any antifreeze you drink will be impossible to metabolize."
But I love my wine
Every ad I block is one fewer ad I have to see, so it’s a win either way
I already could never ignore that shit, that’s why I’m so thorough and motivated about scrubbing ads from my life.
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I’m not watching ads, just a hydration break.
I find it pretty easy actually, it's alien now but in a way that can be classified and instantly dismissed.
My reaction is instant annoyance and avoidance. I don't remember anything about the ad either, so it doesn't make it any more memorable either.
Exactly.
My brain just hears "buy product! We like our product to spend money on it to try to influence you! Now look at these pictures or hear these sounds of said product"
Like man in a suit walking up to me on the street and asking if I'd buy a cheeseburger from him because he likes it a lot.
Enjoy your product sir, ill be leaving now.
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What ads am I gonna see though, everything I touch daily has adblocking on it.
Digital ads do not promote things I'm interested in buying. I do not see ads very often at all - I haven't had a TV for 20+ years, I don't go to cinemas, so I don't even see those kinds of ads. Occasional ads on YT pop up, and I'll skip them; if they are unskippable or too frequent, I'll abandon the vid. I'm not on any commercial "social media", so I don't see ads on them either. I've just never liked social media - Lemmy and Mastodon are all I use these days.
Occasionally, very, very occasionally, I'll see a meatspace ad that I pay attention to: there's a local alternative music collective that wheatpaste ads around in a nearby town. I actually WANT to know about these events, and I will actually go to them, and I actually sought them out in the first place. I also see ads at my local community centre, for local events. Same kind of thing.
So how is this resistance futile?
At this point, I have difficulty following a conversation in the same room where a TV is playing.
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No, now when I see an ad I just hate it, the more I see your BS in a paid promotion, the less that I'll want it.
The silver lining of this is that now when I do see ads I am instantly angered by them. So I have a new kind of immunity, hatred for marketing
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