The only ads I want to see are the posters my kids make telling me to come see their musical, posts on here about how someone wrote a book, made a clay pot or designed some software.
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@futurebird I'm fascinated when someone who works for a targeted ad platform enthusiastically insists that people want to see ads related to their interests. In the few states that ban roadside billboards, these would be people demanding to see multiple large signs about what's ahead. (Spoiler: They don't. Banning billboards has proved wildly popular in Vermont every time it's polled.)
@clayfoot @futurebird the weirdest person I ever met was a guy who insisted that the company he worked at had this amazing idea that would help so many people and transform society and whatnot. They were working on putting ads into automated company emails.
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You need to listen to baseball games on the radio (yes the old time radio with a tuner and the knob and everything)
Listening to a Yankees game on the radio on the roof when I can hear the sound of the bat and crowd from the stadium nearby is the most lovely way to experience a game IMO.
And you get to hear all of the goofy local radio ads.
@gbargoud @futurebird I recently discovered the local radio ads from the paint store - they are so educational!
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There are levels to advertising. The most basic is a person who wants you to buy their thing. The ad simply tells you what the thing is and asks you to buy it.
The next level are ads that generate a BRAND they give the brand an image and mystique. These start to work on your emotions.
The next level manipulates your emotions, ads that make you feel FOMO, or ugly, or raw lust, they try to circumvent the mind and generate irrational desire.
@futurebird once upon a time I was waiting in a market checkout with a friend and she saw a Snickers bar and vocalized "mmm...satisfying" and purchased it before her frontal lobe caught up. I wasn't sure if I wanted to laugh or cry
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@futurebird once upon a time I was waiting in a market checkout with a friend and she saw a Snickers bar and vocalized "mmm...satisfying" and purchased it before her frontal lobe caught up. I wasn't sure if I wanted to laugh or cry
This is funny but it annoys me that many many people, maybe most people, don't really think that ads can do this to them.
"I just ignore the ads"
"I am less likely to buy the product if I see an ad"etc. etc. I want to think it's true too, but the data do not agree. And often we don't even know when the advertising is occurring.
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This is funny but it annoys me that many many people, maybe most people, don't really think that ads can do this to them.
"I just ignore the ads"
"I am less likely to buy the product if I see an ad"etc. etc. I want to think it's true too, but the data do not agree. And often we don't even know when the advertising is occurring.
I had a friend of my mom say that "she'd blocked all ads" on her laptop. This was NOT true even a little. And since she used facebook there were these inline posts, promoted political topics, and... ads... that she just didn't even know were ads.
It turned out she meant that she didn't see pop-ups and banner ads often. She had some kind of blocker installed but it wasn't doing much.
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I had a friend of my mom say that "she'd blocked all ads" on her laptop. This was NOT true even a little. And since she used facebook there were these inline posts, promoted political topics, and... ads... that she just didn't even know were ads.
It turned out she meant that she didn't see pop-ups and banner ads often. She had some kind of blocker installed but it wasn't doing much.
@futurebird @notoriousiptg
How to really block ads on Facebook using an adblocker:
1) Use uBlock Origin
2) Add everything by Meta to your block rulesProblem solved
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I had a friend of my mom say that "she'd blocked all ads" on her laptop. This was NOT true even a little. And since she used facebook there were these inline posts, promoted political topics, and... ads... that she just didn't even know were ads.
It turned out she meant that she didn't see pop-ups and banner ads often. She had some kind of blocker installed but it wasn't doing much.
@futurebird @notoriousiptg I have a PiHole running on a home server blocking ads at the DNS level. Still doesn't get everything. Advertising is ubiquitous and can at best be reduced to less of an annoyance
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This is funny but it annoys me that many many people, maybe most people, don't really think that ads can do this to them.
"I just ignore the ads"
"I am less likely to buy the product if I see an ad"etc. etc. I want to think it's true too, but the data do not agree. And often we don't even know when the advertising is occurring.
@futurebird @notoriousiptg I fully agree. It took me flying to a different continent and standing in a supermarket there looking for cheese to truly grasp the impact of ads: It took mental effort to draw my attention away from familiar but way overpriced packages and search for the reasonably priced local but unfamiliar looking stuff.
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I had a friend of my mom say that "she'd blocked all ads" on her laptop. This was NOT true even a little. And since she used facebook there were these inline posts, promoted political topics, and... ads... that she just didn't even know were ads.
It turned out she meant that she didn't see pop-ups and banner ads often. She had some kind of blocker installed but it wasn't doing much.
@futurebird @notoriousiptg
Yes, it's really, really easy not to realize "ad" "promoted" mean that heart rending story is ... constructed and sent to manipulate you. The long AI ones that end in a product make it a little easier .... -
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