Marketing is supposed to increase demand for a product or service but it doesn’t always work that way. What do you use less or even stopped using because of the company’s marketing?
Tigera, DataDog, Splunk - spam, harassing phone calls (on personal cell at that), then more spam. GTFO. I even had one of them tell me “We’re a legitimate company in this field you know!” and I’m like “Yes, I do know, you’re one of just three companies that come to mind when I think of ${x}, but now as a result of your spammy ‘marketing’ tactics, I will not EVER be doing business with you!”
This is yet another reason why critical IT shit should be open source whenever possible. Are you paying your staff to fix shit or deal with telemarketers pretending they know what the fuck they are talking about? Just toss that into the pile.
Where I used to work, incoming sales calls from these guys were transferred to an endless phone tree. “Oh, you want to talk to (I forget what department name we gave the black hole). Here I’ll get you over to them.” They would be sent in an endless phone tree that never went to a human. It just never ended. We were a ringcentral shop and my boss was a master with the phone traps.
On a side note: did you know rust desk is free and does all you actually need it to do?
Lol Facebook. It wakes itself after a forced stol and spasms notifications
Not really things that I can use less. But I really hate when companies that are already fully saturated (or basically have monopolies) really push ads for their shit. Example being shit like Spectrum. While there are now more options in my area for internet (AT&T did start laying fiber in my area like last summer), it really just seems like all the money put into the marketing departments could be saved. Same goes for AAA games.
We keep seeing how all the major fucking companies keep purging staff or dev studios they bought do to sales “not meeting expectations.” But it seems like they should be cutting marketing first. Every “gamer” I know is already aware that something was announced with a release date via YT trailers and gaming outlets that were already going to cover it. So pushing so many more millions of dollars into shit really just looks like wasted money.
Any of the charities that go door to door, won’t take a one time donation and insist on setting up monthly payments forever, and keeps trying to guilt trip you even after you refuse.
If you act like a sleazy salesperson while trying to get me to donate to a supposed good cause, I’m going to assume you have more to gain than the people you’re claiming to help.
Mobile games that are being advertised
Some look fun, but because they are advertised, i know its going to be terrible with lots of ads
any services/products that:
- massively advertised, in online and out of home;
- send me a SMS or chat without my consent.
and by my experience, somehow underrated products (not massively advertised) are being good and have high quality than the massively advertised ones.
its because they’re (underrated products) focus and investing most of money on the quality, than ones focus and highly invested in marketing, to manipulate peoples mind to buy the product.
As another user said, I’ve been boycotting US products and services. I still use Garmin since I have a watch, HRM, bathroom scale, speed monitor and cadence monitor from them.
I do use them less now since they’re insisting on adding “try the new Garmin+ for free” ads everywhere on their platform.
If there were a product remotely in the ballpark, I’d consider switching. Fortunately, this is pretty much the only time in the past ~decade I can think of them doing this.
I have a eufy doorbell cam I’ll be replacing after I move because the app is just flooded with ads. Aquara has one that supposedly ties into home assistant and frigate nicely.
Youtube on Android TV. Because if you even focus on a video to read what it’s about, YT starts it playing, blaring it’s audio. If YT is open, it will always start playing some loud audio whether you want it or not. Have to mute the TV to not have it dominate the room.
YouTube has been so obnoxious lately. I need an alternative
Everything that YouTuber / Instagram influencers present.
If I see something advertised or pushed by them i immediately question the integrity of the product. I can’t trust them or the brand.
Anything like this, It has the opposite the intended effect
I tried Magic Spoon based on a YouTube sponsor and I was rather disgusted with the way it tasted and felt.
Same. I initially decided to try it to see if it was even close to as good taste wise as it is advertised. Also because it is gluten-free and might be something my dad might like since he had to switch to GF. But none of the four boxes really came close to being similar to what they would replace. And the price (that they make such a point about being “affordable”) was like two or three times more expensive than better options we did find.
It really reminds me that basically everything that is called “affordable” on most social media is really pushed to tech-bro/massive city areas. Which $7~9 might be “affordable” if in super high cost of living cities. Just like how most of the “hot” tech things or trends tend to act like other places are just as “modern.” Most small towns/rural areas are always like a decade behind on things. Which makes it beyond difficult to help regular people with basically everything tech-wise at my job. Which I won’t make my already long reply even longer by ranting more.
I once heard a Youtuber list all the things that aren’t in it, and I was like, “wait, then what is it made of?”
I drink 2% milk without questioning what the other the 98% is.
i didn’t make the conscious choice to stop going to Quiznos, but they had a really horrible marketing campaign to hurt their business. That combined with the fact they were horrible company to franchise with killed most of them.
HAHA, yeah that thing…
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Since a few months, US marketing has deteriorated, so I boycot as many US products as possible.
Most commercials are predatory, meaning they are a bad value or take advantage of a group of people. Ie. Payday lending, pharmaceuticals, diets. Anything in that class should be avoided. Next is the selling to the wealthy. It may or may not be a good value, but it is only the wealthy that will buy it. Is. Cars, cruises, investment. If you have the money, go for it. Last is public announcements. These may or may not be worthwhile. So generally, if something is advertised, I don’t buy it. But I do sing the jingles. 8-)
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Ha! I actually did look into them a while back and their rates are horrible! I laughed!
basically any product advertised just because i’m spiteful like that lmao
I will never buy Native because their ads are fucking everywhere. I will watch them back to back on YouTube when I’m on the living room AppleTV because unlike my laptop I can’t block it there. And I resent them for it.
