I won’t even wear clothing that overtly displays a brand name
They allow their fridges to show advertisements
I think most of the population has simply been conditioned to accept and even expect advertisements to be a normal part of everyday life.
Maybe it’s a situation where ignorance is bliss, to not have ads pull your attention away from what you’re doing, and not feel like they are violating your personal space and resources.
But that’s also part of living modern life on auto pilot like The Shareholders prefer. Work, consume, engage with content, repeat!
I go out of my way to get my all of my gas from one specific station that doesn’t have advertisements on their pumps.
I love it, and now that you’ve said that I am going to be keeping mental notes to see if I have such an option. Fortunately, buying gasoline is a pretty infrequent thing for me.
I would also love to know where that habit lands you in the greater population’s percentiles when it comes to avoiding advertising. I assume most people reading our comments are already the 1% because it’s Lemmy, lol. (my usual is Linux + LibreWolf + ublock origin at both home and work)
If I were you, I would find who owns that gas station. Then hand write an actual physical letter and mail it to them, explaining why you only get gas at their station. That could make enough impression that when that station’s owner is tempted to put in ads, they’ll remember you. Maybe that will be enough to get them to not follow the crowd and to keep their pumps ad-free.
I only pirate. And play it on raspberry pi, libre elec and dumb tv. I never see commercials.
It amazes me that anybody can stand that filth for even a second.
Nice. Jellyfin fan here.
Sometimes it’s like I’m living a double life because I’m married to a normie and we’re active in the local community where normies of course abound. I got my piracy over here, and I pay for a couple streaming services over there as long as they actually get used, but I still take steps to keep ads away.
It’s wild when my wife will just turn on the radio in the car when her phone isn’t connected properly, or throw on some live TV stream (whether pirated or a plan somebody shared with us), and it will play minute after minute of ads that don’t bother her.
On the car radio it usually doesn’t take long before some annoying local dealership ad comes on that repeats the same loud annoying crap they did 20 years ago and I have to turn it off.
I gave my mother one of my old thinkpads I used to use at school, and on setting up her account (fydeOS btw, since it’s perfect for what she uses computers for), I installed an adblocker so she doesn’t see those scam supplement ads she was always convinced were factual, and it’s worked flawlessly.
I visited someone with a 5 year old child recently and they were watching minecraft videos (specifically for child audiences) with 2 min ads every 10 min, that cant be good
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It’s bad on multiple levels. Like 99% of the “for kids” stuff on YouTube is total brain rot with no educational value whatsoever. Then a barrage of totally not targeted ads beamed straight into the kids face.
Seriously. When I was a kid, people said that tv would rot your brain. But at least TV required you to actively engage with it. Even kids shows have a plot, a coherent story with a beginning, middle, and end. You have to actively watch, consider what’s happening, and engage with it. You have to use your mind, even if just binging soap operas. Putting your kid in front of a stream of shorts is like having them watch a large array of randomly blinking lights. There’s no content. No thought. No processing. No development of any kind can come from that.
Seeing people click and sit through minutes of insanely obnoxious ads feels so dystopian to me
oof reminds me of my aunt’s computer, stuff was popping from all over the screen. Combined with the fact that it was an old laptop with low RAM, it was a total nightmare to use
“I haven’t seen that one since the 90’s! If your computer was a person, I’d shoot it in the face.”
I opened brave yesterday and I saw two ads on YouTube. What is happening? Is something broken or have I been betrayed?
Brave is based off chromium. You’re going to get ads. Chromium blocked most adblocker from functioning properly. Theirs a reason why chromium browser’s only have ublock lite. Not ublock origin. Use librewolf or any of the other non-chromium browsers or firefox forks.
Also brave is trash and ran by an egotistical, homophobic bigot https://vger.to/sh.itjust.works/post/52290131
I’ve been on Librewolf for a year or two and it works great
If you want to show me a youtube video and a fuckin ad starts playing, we gon have problems
There have been some times where all my efforts failed and YouTube still showed me an ad. I realised that i’d rather not watch the video than the ad.
If I can’t skip a video ad, and I really want to see the content, I simply make note of the advertiser and never buy anything from them.
I’ve switched insurance companies because the one I had was wasting my time advertising to me.
Oh that’s a good principle in gonna adopt
I think of it that advertising costs money, and that gets passed on to the consumer. So the bigger the advertising budget the higher the final price.
Word of mouth is free.
Part of why Sennheiser is better then Dr Dre
And why I think apple and Samsung phones are overpriced
True and obviously a phone, a TV, a console, etc ate computers.
Fridge
Personally I don’t fundamentally despise the concept of advertising. I think it’s acceptable for people and companies to share information about a potentially great product or service that they’re offering, on reasonable terms.
The main problem for me is: advertising went too far and abandoned most safeguards. Advertising in 2025 is essentially manipulation and brain washing. Most ads don’t give you any information about a product or service whatsoever. Just some celebrity saying it’s great. What is this supposed to accomplish if not manipulating people into mindlessly paying for a thing they know nothing about?
Every malware infection and online scam I’ve dealt with in the last 15 years has used advertising as an attack vector. I block everything.
I believe all advertising exists to manipulate people. Behaviour change is a key aspect of marketing, from how things are kept at a store shelf, to putting the right hoarding on the right street, it’s all done to guide consumer choice in a profitable way.
Advertising was never about giving you information, it was to make you feel cigarettes are cool or you need an more expensive toothbrush to be more confident. Advertising moved away from giving you information to ‘connecting with consumers on an emotional level’ decades before the Internet.
While yes information age has made advertising a lot more effective than it was 25 years ago, but brands were still trying to get you get the most money out of you back then, same as today, only their tools of doing so have improved vastly.
You’re saying “in 2025” and then listing a bunch of things that have been that way since the 40s at least.
Advertising in 2025 is essentially manipulation and brain washing.
Sad that you think that. Never noticed a netflix marlboro ad? Yea that was the point.
Joke’s on you, I never saw a netflix ad
You have never seen a Netflix show or you have never seen an ad for marlboro on Netflix? My point was that Netflix puts subliminal advertising in their retro shows. So for example in The Get Down, there is multiple scenes with a wide street/city shot with Marlboro billboards in the corner the camera zooms in so the marlboro ad was indirectly visible for 1 second, not long enough for people who aren’t aware of subliminal advertising to register consciously. A tactic Australia television was using in the 2010s was switching ads after 1 frame pretending it was programming errors when in reality it was one of the most egregious forms of subliminal advertising. I don’t watch Stranger Things but they are accused of sexying smoking & subliminal marlboro advertisement. Remember the front of counter at grocery stores? Advertisements purposely placed at child eye level.
Jokes are on all of us I was only using an entirely modern example of this problem.
It’s ultra-processed!
Jon Stewart made a point in some video not too long ago about how modern media presents us with a constant drip of ultra-processed speech and how it manipulates and harms our brains for our short-term gratification but the long-term benefit of others who don’t give a shit about us. It is much like engineered ultra-processed food in that way.
Thinking of advertising through that lens, hell that industry has been at the bleeding edge of all kinds of manipulation and shady data gathering for decades! Ultra-processed speech and ultra-processed advertising are basically a package deal!
I don’t know if this refers to politics, but in general, what politicians, and I mean all politicians do where they refer to their opponents and topics consistently with specific words meant to elucidate specific emotions is stomach-turning. And yeah, you’re right, it’s not only politicians, but corporations, newspapers and basically all PR orgs doing the same.
It’s not a layoff, it’s a reorg. It’s not in-person attendance requirements, it’s an inevitable “return to office”. And so on, so forth.
Brawndo has what plants crave.
Exactly. I’d be much more ok with a standardised block of text and maybe a picture. No music, no animation, basic machine voiceover if any audio.
My favourite advertisements (the ones I’m most ok with) are podcast ad reads, because they never gave music or sound effects or crass images, it’s just the voice making the podcast reading some text. And they’re personalised based on the context of the podcast, no personal information needed.
It’s never sharing information about a great new product unless it’s a scam. It’s always scams or large companies screaming how their 2026 version really is superior somehow to their 2025 product and how competitors somehow suck
Our man spitting cold hard facts right here.
Ads on a website? Unlock minus
Ads on your computer? That’s not YOUR computer. Install Linux and get your computer back
I know it’s a crazy concept but a web browser is in fact running on your computer
Honestly, the best ‘ad blocker’ is a 10-minute cleanup: uninstall the bundled junk, disable startup apps, and run Malwarebytes once. Makes an old PC feel new again.
Uninstalling windows and installing KDE with a windows skin worked on my aunts laptop. She just used the browser anyway 🤣
And connect on Facebook and Twitter. And tap “yes” would you like the app to track you and personalize ads. And buy things through tiktok.
We are the odd ones I guess
They’re all-in on consumerism.
I’d say we’re the ones that know how to use adblockers and know where and how to shop online.
Not odd, just not sheep.
id say thats generous by which I mean we’re all of us sheep to a certain extent
That’s fair. The main differentiation is where our ovine behaviors tend towards…
Transparency of all aspects of my life open to the tech industry?
Ehhh, not so much.
I’m a sheep for people I get a crush on.
By which I mean, I become reduced to a fuzzy, mindless creature that can’t say anything beyond incoherent bleating sounds.
I’ve just put the batteries in a toy a relative bought from TikTok. It’s some drawing pad where you draw on it then press a button and your drawing’s supposed to glow. It’s a total piece of shit, the drawing barely glows and it takes ages to clean. It’ll probably go in the bin tomorrow, I’ve already warned my wife to take the batteries out first.
Is it the clear writing slate with the neon dry erase but not really markers? We got those from a family member last year and were never able to get the kids into them.
