I abolished it almost entirely from my life since I was about 10 years old. Have spent most of my media consumption on the internet with adblock. I honestly think it made me smarter. Not, in like a book smart way. But just having a better sense of reality.
The Superbowl is one of the only times I see ads every year. It just shocks me. Not that “ads work on people” but that people don’t just go read a book or rent a dvd instead. Like, they are so fucking awful and ruin any watching experience.
Its amazing that there is a large portion of the population that literally spends 10%-20% of their media time watch ads.
I enabled an ad blocking VPN on my wife’s phone but it interfered with a streaming app so she disabled it. Sometimes she asks me to check her phone for the next step in a recipe or something, and the webpage has an ad at the top and at the bottom and the display is two thirds advertisement but she just says “it doesn’t bother me.” I don’t understand how people live like this.
I can kinda get that. I probably see more ads than I think I do. Self adblock from your brain.
I don’t know if it’s my spectrum brain or if this happens to other people. But I realized that I have literally mistlenly trained my brain to ignore REALLY OBVIOUS warning signs because they basically are designed the same as ads.
I’m the idiot trying to figure out why something isn’t working with the big sign next to me telling me why.
Small tiny text sign in black on white. Well, that looks important. I’ll read that. Big red bold and underlined sign. Can’t fucking see it.
I use several different types of ad blocker for my phone and computer, and all of my television is done through a series of ad free ways that were kind of a pain to learn and manage, but are all free.
I get physically angry when I see ads. It is insane to me that people so willingly let that stuff be shit into their brains constantly.
“Ads are coming to AI”
What an absolutely terrifying statement. Advertising should be abolished.
I abolished it almost entirely from my life since I was about 10 years old. Have spent most of my media consumption on the internet with adblock. I honestly think it made me smarter. Not, in like a book smart way. But just having a better sense of reality.
The Superbowl is one of the only times I see ads every year. It just shocks me. Not that “ads work on people” but that people don’t just go read a book or rent a dvd instead. Like, they are so fucking awful and ruin any watching experience.
Its amazing that there is a large portion of the population that literally spends 10%-20% of their media time watch ads.
I enabled an ad blocking VPN on my wife’s phone but it interfered with a streaming app so she disabled it. Sometimes she asks me to check her phone for the next step in a recipe or something, and the webpage has an ad at the top and at the bottom and the display is two thirds advertisement but she just says “it doesn’t bother me.” I don’t understand how people live like this.
I can kinda get that. I probably see more ads than I think I do. Self adblock from your brain.
I don’t know if it’s my spectrum brain or if this happens to other people. But I realized that I have literally mistlenly trained my brain to ignore REALLY OBVIOUS warning signs because they basically are designed the same as ads.
I’m the idiot trying to figure out why something isn’t working with the big sign next to me telling me why.
Small tiny text sign in black on white. Well, that looks important. I’ll read that. Big red bold and underlined sign. Can’t fucking see it.
I use several different types of ad blocker for my phone and computer, and all of my television is done through a series of ad free ways that were kind of a pain to learn and manage, but are all free.
I get physically angry when I see ads. It is insane to me that people so willingly let that stuff be shit into their brains constantly.
Both advertising AND AI should be abolished.
I wish the general populace was educated enough to willfully ignore it, rather than legislate. This stuff should obviously die.
Generative AI should be abolished. Transformative AI and other machine learning technologies are genuinely useful and cool