• moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      Now I’m picturing a Russian immigrant named Ublick Orekhov who sits silently by the living room radio and turns the volume down when an ad comes on.

    • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
      8·
      4 months ago

      VPNs with DNS level blocking like Mullvad gets around ads on most podcasts for me. I don’t pretend to know how that works, but it does.

      When it doesn’t I get ads from Papua New Guinea, which I don’t mind because I don’t understand what the fuck they’re saying and it sounds funny.

  • s@piefed.worldEnglish
    8·
    4 months ago

    I’ve stopped listening to the radio, watching TV, or using social media altogether. They keep interrupting my ads with content.

  • SailorFuzz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    46·
    4 months ago

    Youtubes ads for liberty have ensured that I will never, ever, evereverever buy insurance from liberty.

    Why tf would I want to give my money to a company that has been, basically, waterboarding me with ads? Ruining my entertainment? It makes no sense.

    • BanMe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      4 months ago

      I always make mental note of the companies with invasive and shitty advertising so I can avoid them… glad others do to.

      Try to hijack my subconscious and see how pissed I get.

    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      16·
      4 months ago

      My logic is that they are spending way too much money on advertising, so it will be more expensive for me for no gain.

      • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
        4·
        4 months ago

        My view is that if they need to advertise so much they must have a shitty product.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    I originally got XM radio because it was ad free.

    Then they merged with Sirrus making it a monopoly and they immediately:

    • Jacked up the price

    • Reduced benefits

    • Removed programming

    • Injected ads everywhere

    And while this was happening, everyone was up in arms over Activision/Blizzard and the fate of fucking COD in another merger treated more like an absolute monopoly than the actual monopoly with the satellite radio providers.

      • Imaginary_Stand4909@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        Liberty mutual ads suck. Full stop.

        I’ve seen ads though that I didn’t hate, or actually showed something interesting/cared about. I can’t remember what it was lol.

        Like there’s a .0001% chance to find a good ad. I also just never see any, but my mom watches a lot of YT on our TV and refuses to try SmartTube, so that’s the only place where I’m forced to see ads…

      • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        232·
        4 months ago

        No ad is fun, no ad is art, no ad is good. Anyone involved in the creation of ads is a terrible person and you are brainwashed by a culture in decline

        • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexusEnglish
          7·
          4 months ago

          I’d say some ads can be cultural relevant, but it’s pretty rare that an ad hits that spot, because they don’t aim for it.

        • MountingSuspicion@reddthat.comEnglish
          161·
          4 months ago

          I agree with a lot of this but I think it’s excessive to say involvement in any ad makes you terrible. Local band puts up flyer at local bar. Karaoke MC says he’ll be at bar Y next week and back here same day next month. I don’t think that makes them bad people. I certainly don’t think it makes the people who designed the flyer bad people. I think ads have become bad and pervasive, but in reality they could and should serve a purpose. If there’s something I’d be interested in, I want to know about it, but there’s no way for me to subconsciously just get all of that information. Newsletters, another form of advertising, are a great way to do this, but those too have suffered. Ads could at least be somewhat informative, but now they’re all just “brand awareness”. I think that’s one of the big issues. I understand the perspective of wanting a 0 ad life, but I think a lot of that mindset comes from the abuse ads have done. Autoplay video ads? Abhorrent. Small ad on a bar website telling me when happy hour is? Helpful. That’s just my opinion, obviously, but I thought I’d mention as an alternative perspective.

          • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1·
            4 months ago

            Those local ads clutter the landscape and litter. They also wouldn’t be necessary if people went back to local community engagement for things like art rather than over reliance on corporate art forms, eg if advertising didn’t permeate every facet of our existence the problem might self correct.

            Also in a just society one could just play music to enjoy the art form rather than submit to the vanity of self promotion to try and gather fame.

            You’re also confusing advertising with information. The bar website having information on happy hour is not an ad. That is information. This is why the yellow pages were not an ad. The difference here is consent. You chose to seek that information out, so it is fine. Obviously there needs to be a way to find information for like local mechanics and shit. But getting a flyer in the mail from one? Yuck.

  • jack_of_sandwich@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    8·
    4 months ago

    Then they went with just having the radio performers do the ad in the middle of the show, and we’re back to that again with youtubers sticking ad reads in the middle of their videos…

    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      I remember when that used to be considered “tacky.” In fact a whole lot of things so-called “influencers” do today are things that probably would’ve gotten them labeled as “tacky” and “sell-outs” back in the 90s. Somehow, over the course of the decades, these things have become acceptable and expected.

      I cringe when a Youtuber shills for companies, especially since it was revealed that “Honey” (which I used to see a lot of creators promote) was screwing over the very people who advertised for it.