#ad

[jes@labyrinth.zone]

@ShadowJonathan I do the same
I learned that tactic from my grandpa, he would mute the TV any time the ads were on

[melioristicmarie@tech.lgbt]

@ShadowJonathan

“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that...

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[melioristicmarie@tech.lgbt]

@ShadowJonathan

"... Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.”

- banksy via sean tejaratchi

[stomata@procial.tchncs.de]

@koratex@urusai.social @ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt are there ads?

[kayohtie@blimps.xyz]

@ShadowJonathan Every so often when I'm driving I'm too distracted by the driving to start skipping the ads for whatever podcast I'm listening to, and then I'll pay attention again and go "Why the fuck am I listening to these?" And promptly finish skipping through almost with a sense of shame for not paying enough attention to do so x3

[flammableengineering@app.wafrn.net]

As a hacker I will employ any and all means to avoid seeing advertisements at all. I go as far as writing user scripts to block website elements that advertise AI features of the same site.

[f3715h@rubber.social]

@ShadowJonathan YES!

[melioristicmarie@tech.lgbt]

@flammableengineering
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doing the lord's work.

@ShadowJonathan

[cadeybunny@mstdn.games]

@ShadowJonathan Why yes, I do use adblock and am proud of it.
I don't actually use sponsor block because some youtubers are actually kind of tactful. but, those are few and far between, and I drop any channel that takes sponsors and just does straight ad reads.

[natsura@catgirl.center]

@ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt ...and this is HOW advertisers ended up deciding to learn how to BEAM ADS straight into our DREAMS!! (Futurama reference btw)... they hated how we would try to make their jobs impossible, and good luck avoiding an ad in your dreams

[claireh@blahaj.zone]

@ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt uBlock Origin my beloved ️

[stereo4x4@techhub.social]

@ShadowJonathan @Natsura ...but an ad is basically "Here is a product/service that is not competitive by itself. It only works because we tell people to buy it"

Btw. the best handymen are the ones with the worst looking cars that can afford to get gigs just by personal refferal.

[anotherjen@mindly.social]

@ShadowJonathan I've never understood why people who are given the choice tell Google to schlurp up more info so the company can present "better-targeted" advertisements. If I have to endure ads, I want them to be for things I have no interest in whatsoever.