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targeted ads have broken the Internet, saturated our subconsciouses, hijacked the attention economy, and continue to erode what's left of our dwindling privacy
advertisers are the de facto gatekeepers of larger and larger swaths of online content.
it wasn't always like this. it's gotten so much worse in recent years.
I always knew that funding the internet using ads wasn't sustainable in the long run.
Ads would have happened anyway like it's happening on the streaming services. They've got people paying subscriptions *with *ads. Double the money, double the fun, right?
I wonder if there's actually any benefit to ads. Like if you could magically ban advertising, would people spend any less money?
Banning advertising will cause people to rely on word of mouth.
Now, instead of some nameless entity telling you a product is the greatest thing, you'll be able to hold people accountable for the things they recommend you.
I wonder how lemmy makes money...
Oh wait. It's almost like ads only exist so people can make a living doing nothing.
It's only going to get worse.
Shoving more ads in people's faces just desensitizes them to it so you can keep adding even more ads into the mix.
"You were okay with 2 ads, why not 3?"
"You were okay with 3 ads, why not 5?"
Repeat until the end of time, or until the masses stop being dumbasses and work together to topple the ruling class.
P.S. I have no respect for anyone in the advertising industry. They are all scum worth less than the gum under my shoe.
Advertising is poison.
The entire concept is intolerable, and it breaks whole industries. We've ruined televisions - not the medium of television, the physical rectangle in your living room - for the sake of cramming ads into the menus. They can show ads over your home movies. Paying for content to avoid ads is impossible because they just add ads. The siren song of slightly more money must not be ignored!