• HollowNaught@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 天前

    I got advertised bras the other day when I was forced to see ads for the first time in years

    Considering I don’t use bras, that’s probably a good sign

    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 天前

      I was gonna say: I have no idea what this is like.

      I’m simultaneously living my best life, (mostly) ad free, and at once unaware of how the rest of the world navigates an ad-encrusted digital space.

  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    57·
    2 天前

    I’ve never seen a targeted ad. It’s very rare that I see any ads at all. Ublock Origin does a very good job of getting rid of them.

    • Mrsilkworm@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      1 天前

      A coworker was showing me something in his phone and I was amazed, how clutered it was with all these ads. I don’t know how people can cope with today’s internet without an adblocker

    • idefix@sh.itjust.works
      10·
      2 天前

      I’m really surprised to see so many people talking about ads. The only ones I see are the non-digital ones in the metro.

  • SPRUNT@lemmy.world
    65·
    2 天前

    The more irrelevant the advertising I see, the happier I am about my digital footprint.

    Plus, it’s funny to me when “the algorithm” tries to sell a moist, pasty red-head lotion and hair relaxer because I matched into that demographic somewhere along the line.

  • s@piefed.worldEnglish
    33·
    2 天前

    Why are people normalizing targeted ads, let alone being impartial to ads at all?

    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 天前

      I’m seeing this the other way around. It’s possible the normalization is incidental: the comic exists because it’s a common interaction these days.

      At the same time, the comic is from the New Yorker. Magazines have a different attitude about advertising in general, so (IMO) this is as anti-ad as a magazine comic can get away with.

    • CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 天前

      1. Because I pay for shit I use so it’s not really that bad. Shocking I know. God forbid you pay someone for the service.

      2. Because in the grand scheme of everything ads have so little effect on life and my experience that whining about it is a complete and utter waste of time.

      • LillyPip@lemmy.caEnglish
        22·
        2 天前

        Because in the grand scheme of everything ads have so little effect on life

        That’s objectively untrue, though. It’s just so effective, you don’t notice it anymore, and that’s kind of scary.

            • CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world
              1·
              2 天前

              I just don’t care, it’s not having a huge effect. I know I know, it is only the ads and ecosystem that makes me want a new GPU from my 2 realistic choices. And I might know of the existence of some other stupid product.

              I have better things to be annoyed and concerned about.

      • s@piefed.worldEnglish
        12·
        2 天前

        I don’t see how paying for a service implies or justifies solicitation. Ads, especially online, persistently obstruct information and strive to be a general sensory nuisance. I don’t even watch cable TV because the ads have become so noisy, brainless, and aggressive (also since so much of the network content has as well).

          • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
            4·
            2 天前

            They’re not wrong but I still block them. One it has gotten out of hand ads are obnoxious and everywhere. Two they have infected people computers before so are not safe.

        • CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 天前

          You don’t understand how commerce works? Everything is just run for free I guess. Nobody is getting paid for anything at all.

  • Ininewcrow@piefed.caEnglish
    11·
    2 天前

    I love VPNs for this … I get to see advertising from around the world … Japanese noodles, Nordic furniture, some weird German food, Turkish real estate, Australian drinks … and all of it delivered in languages I don’t understand.

    • NoDignity@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 天前

      I do sometimes wonder what the ads say but like you I can’t be bothered to learn Australian.

      • Ininewcrow@piefed.caEnglish
        5·
        1 天前

        It’s not hard … you just turn the monitor upside down and you can translate everything.

    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 天前

      Hey, speaking of VPNs, why does Lemmy not let me post anything or even comments when I’m on my VPN? As soon as I turn off my VPN, Lemmy lets me participate again. 🤔

        • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
          4·
          1 天前

          November 2023 I tried getting into a million different instances and dot world is the only one that wouldn’t buffer in silence forever and actually sent me a verification email. Radio silence from every other instance. Please tell me everyone’s magic secrets for getting into other instances.

    • renrenPDX@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      1 天前

      You don’t even have to do that to get served foreign ads. If you search on country specific search sites long enough, it’ll eventually bleed over to your native feed.

    • doug@lemmy.todayEnglish
      7·
      1 天前

      I opted out of as many ad trackers as I could ~10 years ago and took every precaution I could.

      …it resulted in-- and I shit you not-- really embarrassing-looking ads with words written in capital red letters that read something like “HUGE DISCOUNTS ON HORSE SEMEN BY THE GALLON!” complete with pictures of creamy liquid.

      I searched as best I could to make sure I didn’t have a virus or something, and I found some user with the same query as myself; it was a legitimate advertisement from their bottom-of-the-barrel advertisers who-- I guess?-- didn’t pay to target users and had just put in the bare minimum money for ads.

      It was so horrible of an experience I stopped the charade and let them learn about me again-- which I can’t help but think was part of the plan.

  • HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world
    12·
    2 天前

    Not me, opted out of everything I can that would target me and with the VPN I use it just randomly picks locations and servers

    I absolutely love getting ads in random languages I don’t even speak

    I can’t even read the ads so It’s like an extra layer of protection from their marketing due to my own ignorance

    • BeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 天前

      i’ve been having to translate the TV ads for my wife since they show up in a language i know but she doesn’t. it’s kinda fun since she used to be a certified interpreter (well, i guess the cert hasn’t expired so still is?)

  • AeonFelis@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 天前

    I see you purchased a washing machine. May I assume you are collecting washing machines? Of course I may. Let me offer you these excellent deals for washing machines!

  • falseWhite@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 天前

    Use ad blocking DNS.

    Use VPN.

    Never accept all cookies, just the bare minimum.

    Use browser extensions to block trackers.

    Use security and privacy focused browsers.

    I can’t remember the last time I saw ads, let alone targeted.

    • thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      2 天前

      Never accept all cookies, just the bare minimum.

      “Necessary” cookies should have to be able to be rejected

      Temporary Containers extension fixes this (I use its continuation fork, Temporary Containers Plus, since the original has not been updated in 5 years because the author is dead), all new tabs with no container are changed to a temporary container that is deleted after a configurable time without any tabs in it

  • 1D10@lemmy.world
    21·
    2 天前

    I like to imagine the life of the person ads think I am. I get ads in Spanish, I get medication ads for illnesses I do not have, and sometimes literally cannot have,I get ads for high end lab equipment. By far my favorite was an ad for deep sea oil rig sand traps, why would that ad even be made, and why send it to a 50 year old man in a landlocked state who is watching minecraft lets plays and pink pony club covers.

      • 1D10@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 天前

        Yeah the ad made me research it,apparently the oil has a bunch of solids/sand in it that is caught by the trap before further processing. So I did learn a thing, but I’m not buying an oil rig.