• I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    10 months ago

    What really breaks the suspension of disbelief in this reality of ours is that fucking advertising is the most privacy invasive activity in the world. Seriously, even George Orwell would call bullshit on that.

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      10 months ago

      The amount of advertisements you have to consume weather you consent or not is wild. Billboards on roads, bus banners, marquees, you have no choice unless you don’t leave you house, and then you’re still subject to ads, just ones you sort of consented to by buying TV or Internet service.

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        10 months ago

        Road billboards are always a trip when I visit the US. Not only do they have everything on them from Jesus to abortion to guns they are also incredibly distracting physically, especially at night.

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            10 months ago

            I live in the Phoenix area and holy shit the amount of injury lawyer billboards are insane. It’s like every couple hundred feet along the I-10 is an ad for some accident attorney, more often than not multiple ads for the same guy. I see Rafi’s face literally everywhere I go

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              10 months ago

              Visited friends in Detroit once and one of the lawyers bilboards looked like cult recruiting, it was wild. She had them up everywhhhere too.

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        Agreed. I hate ads passionately. Ive been able to eliminate every source of ads from inside my house except websites, but I immediately back any site that won’t do simple or reading view.

        Every moment of my attention taken by some stupid billboard or hearing tvs at a gas station I had to stop at is a moment I could have been thinking about something better. Or nothing, which sometimes would be nice.

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          Same. I go out of my way to learn how to get around ads. I often wonder, especially now with autism and sensory issues being more highlighted, when will start realizing ads in this overwhelming capacity are absolutely a health issue. Sensory issue are real, and an ad shouldn’t have to give people seizures before it’s considered unhealthy.

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            10 months ago

            Ha, yeah I wish a more concrete link could be made between the stance society has taken with smoking and apply it to visual/auditory pollution.

            People are allowed to smoke as long as it’s not being forced upon other people (based on they both have equal rights). What about a right not to be bombarded with garbage every minute while you’re in public? I can’t see this going my way…

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        10 months ago

        Why do people hopl their TV’s up to the internet? I’ll never get it.

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      What I find even more mind boggling is that despite all that tracking, advertising still misses the mark by a mile. I regularly see the same ad repeated 10 times in a row while also being completely irrelevant to me. Meanwhile I also frequently miss stuff that would be relevant for me and that should be covered by ads (e.g. movie releases, I might pick up the first trailer, but completely miss when the movie actually hits cinemas).

      For the money and effort spend on ads you’d think they could do a lot better than what they are.

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        10 months ago

        Ads know your profile better than yourself. It’s telling you you’re a cheap bastard who won’t actually buy popcorn at the movies, making the theater run at a loss.

        /S