Every ad I block is one fewer ad I have to see, so it’s a win either way
Use adnauseum to burn advertisers cash
Actually it’s the opposite. It pisses me off so much when I see an ad now.
Yeah, getting away from ads after a lifetime’s exposure just highlights how disruptive they are when you see them again. Especially since most have negative value to the consumer.
I can’t even stand that “corporate enthusiasm” tone anymore. It’s just fake.
How is that the opposite? Is that not like the whole point of the meme? That you can’t tune it out and that sucks?
You’re right, I completely misread the meme.
I assumed they meant it would work better on me since I’m not used to it.
But actually it mean that it would be more annoying than before.
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.
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.
I see you’ve met Danny. How’s he doing these days?
My reaction…
Same goes for influencers and internet celebrities. Or any celebrity.
Being almost completely detached from that lifestyle… It’s very weird seeing it.
…it’s scary too. That culture starts to look more like the culture of skid row. Just people that lost their minds. (Heavy generalization)
Shit… Just people that do those selfy videos with their opinion creep me tf out. …and twitter opinions… Etc… what a weird place we live. And most of the opinions are just regular marketed news opinions recycled because these people don’t even know how to be genuine or think for themselves. I feel like there’s an epidemic and most people are zombies detached from honest genuine humanity. And it’s so prominent…
Once you zoom out and view the humanity from a detached state, it just looks so fucking brainless, immature, and lacking integrity. …even the “successful” people.
For example… In America you basically can’t have an original serious genuine conversation about existentialism or honest politics. Most of the people don’t know how to think originally. Like it’s like talking to robots that were all built on a factory line and they only have the set of thoughts they were programmed to have.
Tge problem isn’t so much that people have changed. It is that these people are more visible. It’s a scale issue. The general public has always been this stupid, but before social media, they just kept to their local communities or even just their own households. Now those communities are online, global and mainstream and even the houswewives you wouldn’t normally see are there. It’s all the people, all at once.
Unless you want to do something about it, you can best ignore them. Stick to your own group and your own family. You’ll be much happier that way.
If you do want to do something. Repetition is key. Keep having the arguments that seem so pointless. Keep pointing to tge facts and the science,even though they don’t seem to listen. If they hear it often enough and from enough directions, it might spark something.
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.
Ads succeed when you “tune them out” so that they enter your unconscious mind, and then when you’re thinking, “I’m hungry, what’s for dinner,” the product comes to mind.
The best defence against this kind of inception is to consciously think about the ad that’s playing, and think, “I don’t want <X>”
By using adblock, you reduce your exposure to ads, and reduce the number of times you need to consciously resist them.
Q’s take is just wrong.
I use a vpn that builds in Adblock, and only stream ad free services. I see very few ads in general so when I am subjected to them it’s a visceral reaction. It makes me hate the product intensely. That seems to align with what you’re describing.
I also tend to overthink purchases and research them if there is not a suitable local option. I’m not just ordering the first thing that comes to mind, I’m picky.
It just seemed like an observation to me. One that personally rings true.
I didn’t read it as being pro-ad or anti-adblock. Just more of like, “have you noticed this?” type thing.
Was honestly surprised when I saw that so many people here are taking this to be some kind of anti ad blocker message. I just don’t see it.
It’s two fold: ads are annoying, and they actually work to slowly make you less happy without the advertised product.
I am unhappy that the product exists in any way, regardless of my having it or not. The only thing that would make me desire the object more, is if it kills billionaires. Always tempting, those ones.
thats what they want you to believe
I’ve never seen a Taco Bell add and thought I was missing out. I’m not suddenly craving plastic looking food.
Who they fuck watches broadcast TV? Back to bed Grandpa
It doesn’t say the TV is only broadcast. Lots of people have smart TVs and use streaming services that also force ads upon you.
I can’t help all stupid people
I’m watching the France match right now on live TV. Putting a cane on the wish list for my 38th this summer.
That’s totally the same😂
So what are you saying. Get the overpriced premium subscriptions or pirate?
I don’t use adblock just so I don’t have to see ads, I use adblock so that every time I view a news article I don’t have 50 different domains grabbing my browser fingerprint to build a profile on me that can be used to bypass my 4th amendment right to privacy.
“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
At this point, I have difficulty following a conversation in the same room where a TV is playing.
Saaaaammmmeeeee
I have had trouble not disassociating in a room where a TV is playing since I was a kid. I hate that it’s hard to find a place to eat that doesn’t have a million TVs these days.
I always save the 3.5 jack from headphones when they die. I carry them with me because they can instantly silence any TV you can reach. Doctors offices and airports are much better now.
I had never seen that before I came to the US, tv’s are only supposed to be in sports bars, why are they everywhere?
Same, have this problem all the time at my in laws. TV is blasting all day
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
I don’t think that was the message at all. Where does it imply that you’re worse off? It’s just a (in my experience) true statement about how ads are even more annoying when you’re not so accustomed to tuning them out (like we were in the cable TV days)
Was this a spirial?
Ad Block already exists on TV:
Depends. On some Smart TVs, if you try to mute advertisements on certain streaming platforms, it won’t let you. It will only go to half volume.
Fuckin right
Life is hell
Yeah it’s just annoying to have to keep paying attention anyway so you know when to unmute. So you end up watching a little bit of silent ads anyway.
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.
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
Nah, I have decades of practice filtering out ads and the old habits come right back when I have to endure them.
I’m so thankful my parent’s rule was that we muted TV commercials. Crazy how many people don’t think to just mute youtube ads and pay attention to something else for 30 seconds.
My solution to avoiding capitalist propaganda is being too poor to afford things
… my blocking ads is a courtesy so you don’t waste your time, cpu cycles, and bandwidth on serving them to me.
Precisely. The only time I tolerate ads are when I’m driving and listening to a podcast
Commercial starts: “Buy our new…”
Me: " Okay, this is clearly not meant for me…"
I already could never ignore that shit, that’s why I’m so thorough and motivated about scrubbing ads from my life.
It’s crazy to me that there are people that can’t ignore shit like that. Just ignore, add them to the list, and move on. Do you have rush out to buy everything you see if billboards too?
Motherfucker I am still humming a jingle sometimes for a tooth powder ad for a company that went out of business before I was born, because my mother used to randomly sing it around the house when I was small.
That shit is pernicious.
Congratulations on your finely-developed ability to filter which of your perceptions advance to memory but I will pick up and remember just any random thing and it sticks
Found the “ads don’t actually work” person that without fail is in every single thread about ads. They work on you. You’re not super human.
Ads are designed to trigger a change in a person’s behavior in the target audience. If you are not the target audience or the ad is poorly calibrated it causes annoyance.
Most advertizing offers very little ROI to the business. This is why online advertisers are so aggressive on how they measure “engagement”. Given that ad revenue is the the primary driver of online and TV, the industry massively overemphasizes their effectiveness. Most advertising campaigns are only marginally effective if at all.
There is always an ad that will work on you but it’s not common. It’s likely less than 0.01% the massive amount of ads you are exposed to. But hey if you see 100 ads per day and one ad every 100 days works. It can be worth it to the company.
That is a really long way to say “ads work”. I never said they always or usually work on any given individual.
Oops my last sentence got cut off
The vast majority of ads don’t work. Statistically there is a high probability of a subset of individuals where they don’t work at all. So shitting on anyone who claims they don’t work for them, only shows your own susceptibility to unsupported claims.
Human behavior is a wide distribution of genetic and cultural influences. Any broad claims like “everyone is susceptable to advertizing” is unsupportable.
Standing up for confidently incorrect individuals is a silly waste of time. We all see and hear thousands of ads per year no matter how many we block. It is absurd to suggest that there are people who could be exposed to that much psychological manipulation and remain entirely unaffected.
Reality is often absurd and not what you expect.
Just how much time have you spent in marketing to be such and expert on the subject?
There is a finite amount of manipulation techniques used by marketers and others to manipulate human behavior. These have been fine tuned to the nth degree to target susceptible individuals over the centuries. However they only work on susceptible individuals.
Individuals that differ from the targeted norm can resistant to the manipulation. This can be a instinctive response or a trained one via education. This is why in totalitarian government regimes, there is always a few individuals who don’t fall for the shit.
They don’t… They really don’t.
Then explain why there is a multi million industry and branch of research/education if it doesn’t work?
Yes I’m sure you’ve never once seen an ad for a food or drink you already like, and then later purchased that food or drink because you started craving it over a period of a few hours. I’m sure you’ve never seen an ad for something you were already thinking of buying and then later bought it because the ad reminded you of it. Because you’re the one human in existence that is absolutely 100% impervious to any kind of influence whatsoever. What is it even like to be so confidently incorrect? Do you even think you’ve ever been wrong a single time about anything? That level of confidence is so foreign to me, I cannot fathom what it could possibly feel like.
Correct. I am that person.
I have a feeling that overconfidence is an issue for you
It’s not overconfidence to know that I don’t listen to ads. Even if they are playing near me, I drown it out with my own hatred for them. If I don’t hear or see them, how do they affect me, precisely?
These posts are always about GENERALITIES in human behavior. Not the extreme ends or random differences. And yet there are always hordes of people claiming that EVERY SINGLE HUMAN ALIVE reacts the same to advertising.
What overconfidence you have in your own knowledge of the human mind that you can tell me about my own.
It’s crazy to me that there are people who just accept ads into their lives.
According to sponsorblock my paltry 9 submissions saved people from 2619 segments, equalling to 1d21h5m of their lifes, and sponsorblock itself saved me from 4463 segments equalling to 2d14h7m of my life. And that’s only sponsorblock, not my adblocker included which doesn’t supply those stats.
Why would I ever allow companies to waste my life like that? Yeah sure you can “ignore” it (no you can’t, you’ll still hear their brand names and slogans/tunes), but if you have to ignore it it’s still wasted time.
Fuck that
These companies are robbing the planets environment of so much energy and resources in order to rob us of our time so that they can rob us of our money. When you think of the scale of waste, it is literally incomprehensible to human brains. Almost certainly, MILLIONS OF YEARS OF COLLECTIVE HUMAN LIFE have been needlessly and carelessly wasted by other people intentionally. I genuinely cannot think of a more purely evil institution in the history of humanity.
I just object to 99% of advertising. If someone walked up to me in the street and interrupted what I was doing to try and get me to buy something I’d tell them to fuck off. I was fine with banner ads. Even animated ones. Then they had obnoxious audio, took over screen space and/or auto played. YouTube went from a 1-2 five second ads to ads over a minute. So now they all get blocked.
Bonus rant: Billboards are eco vandalism. You drive from my former home town to the beach and go from a bunch of green farming country, beautiful forest and mountains to coastlands. With billboards trying their best to fuck it up along the way. Fuck ignoring it, it’s a pleasure actively blocking it so these parasites waste money.
“You owe the companies nothing. You, especially, don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.” Banksy on utilizing ad space.
That billboard thing is so true. I’ve often thought, while driving, “Man, if I were so rich that money meant nothing, I’d buy up all these billboards and cover them with forest paintings.” No words, nobody trying to sell anything to anyone. Just nature being peaceful.
Also, digital billboards with their bright-ass screens need to die, like, yesterday. It’s hard enough to preserve one’s night vision with headlights the way they are, we don’t need billboards beaming like the sun.
I have family members who have not been able to ignore a single ad. Ads are by definition predatory. Some of us being able to tune them out to a large degree just means we’re not the prey they’re looking for.
