Every ad I block is one fewer ad I have to see, so it’s a win either way
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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.
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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.
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"By not drinking antifreeze, you've just re-sensitized yourself so any antifreeze you drink will be impossible to metabolize."
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At this point, I have difficulty following a conversation in the same room where a TV is playing.
Saaaaammmmeeeee
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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.
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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
.. my blocking ads is a courtesy so you don't waste your time, cpu cycles, and bandwidth on serving them to me.
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I already could never ignore that shit, that’s why I’m so thorough and motivated about scrubbing ads from my life.
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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.
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This happened to me yesterday at someones house. Was a painful 90 seconds learning about Crisco firewalls.
the worst part about Crisco firewalls is the melting point. after one DDOS attack they just puddle on the floor.
last time I ever use a Crisco firewall to protect my Citrus desktops.
God, don’t even get me started on Citrus. “Work remotely, avoid scurvy”.
Nothing like a well seasoned firewall
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.
Gas pump ads are the worst. I stopped going to a station because they couldn't be muted, and they're the ads that scream at you or brain rot craft videos. I wouldn't have minded so much if was only the "good news" segment or usefull PSAs. But yelling at me at 7am to buy beef jerky is not okay.
If a person came up to you at the pump and offered a flyer, that's okay. But if they started screaming at you to buy their shit, that'd be harassment. Gas pumps should not be allowed to "harass" people.
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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
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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 have to mute the TV and look away. I'm repulsed by then completely.
and this is why google is trying to incorporate cameras into TVs and entertainment systems.
can't look away if big brother is watching.
Fuck...
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.
Bullshit.
I don't want to be blind to it. I want to be able to snipe it from ten kilometers away.
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.
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God I feel this. If I'm at someone else's house, or a bar and free to air is on, I' get so distracted. I think it's partly the ADHD partly the fact every ad is brand new to me. Distraction is the
So distracted they couldn't finish the thought
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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.
YouTube has gotten a lot better since I started using "sponsorblock", it automatically skips sponsor segments.
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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.
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
It's the opposite. Whenever I have to watch live TV, I get really aggressive and annoyed over the amount of ads
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No not really, because I've also trained my eyes to immediately glaze over and flick away from any ads. It's kind of like riding a bike, you don't forget
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As someone with ADHD, nah.
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