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

Actually it’s the opposite. It pisses me off so much when I see an ad now.

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.

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.

Bullshit.

Not really, we get really mad at any a ads that are horrible. If it’s a good ad that’s a different thing ig

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.

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.

Uno Reverse: I boycott every product in every ad I 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.

Ads are manipulative and predatory, if you don’t have a good extensive ad block on all your devices, you will fall for them even if you think you ignoring them, they are made and designed for you to get stuff subconsciously not knowing you are doing this. What really bothers me is how it actually can fuck up elderly and disabled people, had a ex who’s parents actually bought things without realizing it because a ad played and they didn’t know they was being coerced of emulated, they bought so so much things they didn’t need with the Little money they had.

I will always provide help to people around me on how to block as much ads as possible on there machines, however possible. Fuck the corporations.

Is that how people work…? Seriously? Are peoples brains that mushy?

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

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.