they don’t care about you or what you think. The whole point is to get you familiar with the product. Familiarity drives shopping. You’re not gonna remember 6 months ago when that detergent ad ruined your 3rd blindfolded Dark Souls 3 run with a taser for a controller, but tide WILL feel familiar, and therefore a safe option. People love to feel like they’re that one wolf among sheep when they get annoyed by an ad, but in the end the rich corps still win.

but on a positive note I love the memes you’ve posted

There's a theory that targeted ads are severely less effective than assumed amongst advertisers, and that traditional "spray and pray" advertisement is just as effective, but a whole lot cheaper. Essentially, targeted ads frequently target people who are already aware of the product, have already decided to buy it, or have already bought it. So, basically, company's are overpaying for ads, and if they ever stop, the advertisement based internet is in trouble.

Podcasts, but same thing:

I wasn't "ready to start up my business" anyway, but if I ever am, you can bet your bottom that I still won't have anything to do with fucking Shopify! 🖕🏼🤬🖕🏼

The more you see their ads, the larger portion of their income they spend on it, the worse is the product or service.

ITT: I'm smarter than billion dollar marketing departments!

ublock+sponsorblock on firefox and u never see a ad again.

Still good for them

But you have heard of it.

and if your audio isn't properly equalized to whatever I was watching then I will actively go out of my way to rate your product negatively. It's not much, but I am that kind of petty.

This is why I block ads everywhere I can.

Adguard on my laptop and phone.

TizenTubeCobalt on my Nvidia Shield.

Morphe on my phone to modify the YouTube app to block ads and integrate Sponsorblock.

Their ad revenue is not my concern.

Either Google doesn't have much information on my interests or their personalized ads suck ass. The only ads I care about are the ones in the pamphlet with this week's discounts in the local convenience store, I always read those.

I cannot tell you anything about any ads I have seen in the last few years online. If they pop up and I can't shut them off, the single thing I am paying attention to is when the skip now button shows up. I literally cannot tell you anything about any of the ads, neither company nor product. Back in the day, you'd run to the other room and do things while the ads came on in TV shows but you were still hooked in because of the jingles. To this day I can remember many of the jingles from the 70s. New online ads, absolutely no idea.
However in the car I listen to radio and have recently started listening to a new station. I am starting to recognize some of the higher rotation ads. The ones I like, I might eventually try the business if it offers a product I need, but the much longer list is the one of companies that I will never do business with since their ads annoy me so much. Name recognition isn't great if all it promotes is loathing.

I think I finally realized why I hate the ads on YT more than ads elsewhere.

They suddenly breaks into the video without warning

There used to be a brand that advertised on Channel 4, and when you clicked a “Skip Advert” button it switched to the same advert but all the people were jumping rope. I hate that brand.

It makes me push Ctrl+w

Best advertisement in the world for me is having a solution to a problem I'm trying to solve... but being so good at it that I find you and not the other way around.

I've switched away from car insurance companies that advertised to me excessively considering I was already buying the fucking service to begin with. Figured with that ad budget, they couldn't be the cheapest, and I was right.