It’s crazy to me that there are people that can’t ignore shit like that. Just ignore, add them to the list, and move on. Do you have rush out to buy everything you see if billboards too?
I have family members who have not been able to ignore a single ad. Ads are by definition predatory. Some of us being able to tune them out to a large degree just means we’re not the prey they’re looking for.
It’s crazy to me that there are people who just accept ads into their lives.
According to sponsorblock my paltry 9 submissions saved people from 2619 segments, equalling to 1d21h5m of their lifes, and sponsorblock itself saved me from 4463 segments equalling to 2d14h7m of my life. And that’s only sponsorblock, not my adblocker included which doesn’t supply those stats.
Why would I ever allow companies to waste my life like that? Yeah sure you can “ignore” it (no you can’t, you’ll still hear their brand names and slogans/tunes), but if you have to ignore it it’s still wasted time.
Motherfucker I am still humming a jingle sometimes for a tooth powder ad for a company that went out of business before I was born, because my mother used to randomly sing it around the house when I was small.
That shit is pernicious.
Congratulations on your finely-developed ability to filter which of your perceptions advance to memory but I will pick up and remember just any random thing and it sticks
Ads are designed to trigger a change in a person’s behavior in the target audience. If you are not the target audience or the ad is poorly calibrated it causes annoyance.
Most advertizing offers very little ROI to the business. This is why online advertisers are so aggressive on how they measure “engagement”. Given that ad revenue is the the primary driver of online and TV, the industry massively overemphasizes their effectiveness. Most advertising campaigns are only marginally effective if at all.
There is always an ad that will work on you but it’s not common. It’s likely less than 0.01% the massive amount of ads you are exposed to. But hey if you see 100 ads per day and one ad every 100 days works. It can be worth it to the company.
I just object to 99% of advertising. If someone walked up to me in the street and interrupted what I was doing to try and get me to buy something I’d tell them to fuck off. I was fine with banner ads. Even animated ones. Then they had obnoxious audio, took over screen space and/or auto played. YouTube went from a 1-2 five second ads to ads over a minute. So now they all get blocked.
Bonus rant: Billboards are eco vandalism. You drive from my former home town to the beach and go from a bunch of green farming country, beautiful forest and mountains to coastlands. With billboards trying their best to fuck it up along the way. Fuck ignoring it, it’s a pleasure actively blocking it so these parasites waste money.
“You owe the companies nothing. You, especially, don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.” Banksy on utilizing ad space.
That billboard thing is so true. I’ve often thought, while driving, “Man, if I were so rich that money meant nothing, I’d buy up all these billboards and cover them with forest paintings.” No words, nobody trying to sell anything to anyone. Just nature being peaceful.
Also, digital billboards with their bright-ass screens need to die, like, yesterday. It’s hard enough to preserve one’s night vision with headlights the way they are, we don’t need billboards beaming like the sun.
It’s crazy to me that there are people that can’t ignore shit like that. Just ignore, add them to the list, and move on. Do you have rush out to buy everything you see if billboards too?
I have family members who have not been able to ignore a single ad. Ads are by definition predatory. Some of us being able to tune them out to a large degree just means we’re not the prey they’re looking for.
It’s crazy to me that there are people who just accept ads into their lives.
According to sponsorblock my paltry 9 submissions saved people from 2619 segments, equalling to 1d21h5m of their lifes, and sponsorblock itself saved me from 4463 segments equalling to 2d14h7m of my life. And that’s only sponsorblock, not my adblocker included which doesn’t supply those stats.
Why would I ever allow companies to waste my life like that? Yeah sure you can “ignore” it (no you can’t, you’ll still hear their brand names and slogans/tunes), but if you have to ignore it it’s still wasted time.
Fuck that
Motherfucker I am still humming a jingle sometimes for a tooth powder ad for a company that went out of business before I was born, because my mother used to randomly sing it around the house when I was small.
That shit is pernicious.
Congratulations on your finely-developed ability to filter which of your perceptions advance to memory but I will pick up and remember just any random thing and it sticks
Found the “ads don’t actually work” person that without fail is in every single thread about ads. They work on you. You’re not super human.
Ads are designed to trigger a change in a person’s behavior in the target audience. If you are not the target audience or the ad is poorly calibrated it causes annoyance.
Most advertizing offers very little ROI to the business. This is why online advertisers are so aggressive on how they measure “engagement”. Given that ad revenue is the the primary driver of online and TV, the industry massively overemphasizes their effectiveness. Most advertising campaigns are only marginally effective if at all.
There is always an ad that will work on you but it’s not common. It’s likely less than 0.01% the massive amount of ads you are exposed to. But hey if you see 100 ads per day and one ad every 100 days works. It can be worth it to the company.
They don’t… They really don’t.
Then explain why there is a multi million industry and branch of research/education if it doesn’t work?
I just object to 99% of advertising. If someone walked up to me in the street and interrupted what I was doing to try and get me to buy something I’d tell them to fuck off. I was fine with banner ads. Even animated ones. Then they had obnoxious audio, took over screen space and/or auto played. YouTube went from a 1-2 five second ads to ads over a minute. So now they all get blocked.
Bonus rant: Billboards are eco vandalism. You drive from my former home town to the beach and go from a bunch of green farming country, beautiful forest and mountains to coastlands. With billboards trying their best to fuck it up along the way. Fuck ignoring it, it’s a pleasure actively blocking it so these parasites waste money.
“You owe the companies nothing. You, especially, don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.” Banksy on utilizing ad space.
That billboard thing is so true. I’ve often thought, while driving, “Man, if I were so rich that money meant nothing, I’d buy up all these billboards and cover them with forest paintings.” No words, nobody trying to sell anything to anyone. Just nature being peaceful.
Also, digital billboards with their bright-ass screens need to die, like, yesterday. It’s hard enough to preserve one’s night vision with headlights the way they are, we don’t need billboards beaming like the sun.