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Every ad I block is one fewer ad I have to see, so it’s a win either way

I find it pretty easy actually, it's alien now but in a way that can be classified and instantly dismissed.

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

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.

Who they fuck watches broadcast TV? Back to bed Grandpa

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."

At this point, I have difficulty following a conversation in the same room where a TV is playing.

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

Ad Block already exists on TV:

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

My solution to avoiding capitalist propaganda is being too poor to afford things

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.

Bullshit.

I already could never ignore that shit, that’s why I’m so thorough and motivated about scrubbing ads from my life.

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.

This happened to me yesterday at someones house. Was a painful 90 seconds learning about Crisco firewalls.

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.

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.

When my wife was pregnant with our youngest she had to eat a no fat diet so I joined her. After the birth we went back to eating normally and felt sick. We eat much healthier now.

When trying to lose weight I cut out soda, a few years later I tried a soda and it tasted like garbage to me. All I could taste was salty sugar and avoid just about anything but water idea days.

After years of no ads when I watch live sports (watched the Pikes Peak HC today for example) I have to mute the TV and look away. I'm repulsed by then completely.

This is a good thing.

I don't want to be blind to it. I want to be able to snipe it from ten kilometers away.

At a certain point it becomes cult-like and you reel in disgust.

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