Is it me or does reddit feel, weird?
So I checked out reddit after a long time and was going through the top of r/videogames subreddit and I could clearly see a pattern in most of the posts there. Posts were mostly like "what game ______ for you?" or "what game _____ like this?" Now I could be wrong but it doesn't feel 'organic' (if that's correct way to put it). It's like these are put up intentionally. Thoughts?
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I don't know, I feel like advertisements CAN be entertaining content, much like how people for decades have only wanted to watch the Super Bowl for the commercials. The problem, and the reason I have ad blockers all over the place, is that they don't design the commercials to be entertaining. They want to drill it in to you with endless repetition, or banner ads every 2 paragraphs on a news article.
It is these problems that cause me to want to block ads, not ads in general.
Im of the opinion we should reject all advertising and change the dynamic
If someone wants to sell me something they have to pay for my time.
Instead of paying Jake Paul $10,000,000 to sell me something. They just have to pay me the bandwidth or time their commercial just ate up of my free time.
I work all fucking day and barely get 6 hours before bed. 3 of those hours is running into ads fuck that.
I drive home and have to look at fifteen rusted ass giant metal billboards barely holding together instead of cool ass trees and birds.
I turn on the radio to get a song, 3 minute DJ giving me gossip about celebrities I should purchase from, 2 minute commercials and another song.
I turn on Spotify i pay for and get ad reads all podcast long along with the host sneakily promoting their new chewing tobacco or liquor.
I get home and kids are watching prime, with commercials. Shit doesn't stop. It keeps encroaching into our free time. Its like an Edgar Alan Poe story but written by Edward Louis Bernays
I hate advertisements
I think there is a distinction of PUSH advertising where you see billboards everywhere, ads stuck into youtube videos, spam emails, whatever that is just sent out to the general public and see what sticks. Compare that with PULL advertising where a consumer goes out and looks for something. When I am shopping for a new TV or something that needs a bit of research, I have no problem being sold to.
It's kinda like going out of your way to watch movie trailers. Or watching a lets's play of a video game you are interested in. It can be a fun way to spend some time and they can be entertaining in their own right.
I agree. There are very few places I will tolerate ads. On my PC, I block them all. If a website manages to sneak one through, I usually close the tab immediately.
When I visit my family, they watch live TV and it's so jarring to see how much advertising they sit through.
On public transit, I can't really avoid ads either, unfortunately. I can ignore them, but I can't not see them.
That's pretty insightful and puts some things into better perspective for me. I like the way you described it.
I have a problem with it- if I'm shopping, I want to know the technical differences between stuff, all advertising tells you is "ours is better because {indecipherable technobabble}" that can't be verified because it's essentially non-existent outside of that company's marketing materials.
Yep that's why I've always thought it was weird people dislike targeted ads. I prefer watching a well made gaming or weeb ad vs feminine hygiene or car ads.
I don't mind the targeted ads but I do hate the pushy ads that are unavoidable and that's why I use unblock etc. Banner ads didn't bother me much, the tiny strip of ad at the bottom of my lemmy app doesn't bother me cause it supports the creator. The unskipable video ads and pop ups when I'm browsing do annoy me.
I agree with all your other statements, but offer you this one counterpoint: you're getting the interesting ones.
Some program out there calculated once that *I* have a low to moderate chance of being female, but very little of anything else I look up could be considered advertiser friendly. Their only option remaining was to make all my targeted ads dumbass sweatshop clothes and feminine hygiene products forever.
Yea it's unfortunate how that works. I rarely see ads anyways at home since I have unlock and the full suite of privacy apps.
I do enjoy watching cartoon network and their ads when I'm at a hotel on vacation. It's nostalgic.