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The original was posted on /r/meme by /u/ProEpikGamer90 on 2026-02-20 05:38:25+00:00.
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You know I cannot be the only one that will consciously decide to not buy brands that make intrusive adverts. But, they must also know that. So I can only assume that the majority of people don’t think the same and it’s an overall upside for these annoying ads.
That baffles me too. Being annoyed by an obnoxious ad instantly puts the brand in my naughty, to-boycott list.
Like, if I ever need to use a VPN, guess who I’ll go out of my way to never, ever use? That’s right NordVPN, go fuck yourself! I’ve never used you and I already hate you.
How do people care so little that it’s still a beneficial strategy for brands?
I just assume that anyone who needs to spend a lot on bothering me about their product… is either pushing a really shitty product, or offering it at a really shitty price, because so far that has been the case about 90% of the time.
If it was a good value, people would spontaneously recommend it when appropriate, with only light advertising in places where it makes sense (athletic gear advertised on sports websites, for example). Hell, it doesn’t even have to be all that good a product, just better than the alternatives. I mean look at Linux! :p
It’s so clear when you know what’s going on, but I think most people operate under the assumption that if they constantly hear about it and don’t hear bad things to the same degree, that the thing must be good. Propaganda is everywhere saying exactly that in lots of different ways, so hard to really blame them…
Adblockers are not that difficult to install, so I’d guess the slice of people who really resent ads enough to actually make purchasing decisions out of spite but also who still watch them isn’t that big.
There is a third category here: people who also hate ads but pay to turn off the ads, recognizing that a service takes money to operate. You’re not the only one who hates ads, and if you simply eschew them, that’s great. But we have a lot of people here who want to get everything for nothing, and that’s just not a tenable plan.
I mean look at the entitlement in the post. “Your” ads but “my” video.
AdNauseam is great :)
I’ve tried it, but the only “ads” I’ve had it collect in the past are cookie banners, random reddit posts, and thumbnails on a Google search page (only used a Google search page to try and see if it would actually collect ads)
Sorry but wrong. You are not going to win this kind of battle against advertisers. If you notice the intrusion and hate the product, you weren’t in the market for their product in the first place. They don’t care that you hate their company. When you are in the market for the product, you won’t notice the intrusion or it won’t matter if you do; the ad is still increasing your exposure to their product in the ways that increase your chances of buying.
I agree with this. Ads contaminate your mind, so make sure to use ad blockers. But also help your friends set up ad blockers, because if their minds are contaminated, it will spread to you.
I don’t know. Bad word of mouth can severely harm a product I think. So they should really care if there are millions of people who absolutely despise them.
By the way, completely unrelated, don’t use Wix if you’re making a website. It’s awful. Also, I heard it was mentioned in the Epstein Files. Could be untrue but just to be safe don’t use Wix if you don’t want you and your website to be linked to Jefferey Epstein. Wix, the child predator’s choice. Allegedly.
I actually am planning on making a website soon. I’ll have to keep Wix in mind.
Also later in time when one is making a choice for a kind of product one doesn’t usually buy, one might have forgotten their dislike for a brand due to their excessive use of advertising and yet their subconscious is still giving them a feeling of familiarity when they see that brand’s name on a product which makes it more likely that they’ll chose it over other options that don’t feel as familiar.
Most advertising nowadays is meant to affect subconscious impulses which will do their thing with no cognitive effort, whilst the position the OP holds (and which I myself try to) is conscious and requires cognitive effort to maintain.
I’ve already won by not buying their shit.
This is the key.
Ads don’t care if you like or don’t like them, as long as you remember them.
The worst thing an ad can do is be forgettable
I don’t know how having me associate their name with a spike of rage is a good thing. There are definitely companies I went from being neutral towards to never considering them again due to their advertising methods. For example I’ve never eaten at Quiznos because of those fucking rat commercials they did like 20 years ago. I’m not even sure if that place still exists or not. I hope not, and I hope whoever came up with those commercials is dead.
Sorry dude, you’re on lemmy. Nobody is here because it’s the easiest or best. Most of us are here because we’re the types who don’t like getting fucked over. I wholeheartedly agree that ads in and of themselves are annoying and fucking detest those Quiznos commercials but we’re the “weird” ones here. Most people loved those ads and Quiznos sold a ton of crappy sandwiches. Sadly advertising works on most people.
Every single ad these days go into a memory black hole. They are so irritating, so invasive, so EVERYWHERE; that I instinctively dissociate from anything in them.
They won’t get my conscious or subconscious attention. All of my large purchases are researched a minimum 2 weeks in advance and anything small is done on a case by case basis (of which I intentionally scrutinize anything I might have “heard of” because I’m aware of the phenomenon. Fuck all ads, they are my enemy.
I literally pay money to not see ads in my (local) streaming services.
The irritation and mental load from dealing with shitty ads is well worth the about 15€ a month I pay to have them removed.
I bet you were thinking about some add when writing this.
Disagree.
I may be in the minority but the more I know about you, the less I ever want you in my house.
I will literally go by an LG Washing Machine out of spite because Sony showed up too much in ads.
Ads work. Consumer behavior is among the most studied phenomenoms in the world.
It’s almost like there’s a multi billion industry based on it!
Its over 1.3 Trillion per year by now, thats more than the Military budget of the usa. You could buy about 80 aircraft carriers with that. Every year.
Where do they get that money?
Oh yeah, it’s why everything is priced the way it is.
So they can use that money against us.
But I’m sure lemmy geniuses know more about it…
They used to.
Why do you see diminishing returns lately? Because more money into more ads lead to consumer fatigue.
Especially those sponsor segment that have nothing to do with me because i’m not from the west.
Try SponsorBlock.
Actual magic. Never see the sponsors, or other such annoyances. Cannot recommend it enough.
Do be warned tho, on rare occasions segments get submitted for literally every time something is mentioned, even if it’s not part of the actual sponsorship segment. I saw a video once that had well over 10 segments and it just kept skipping them. Turned off sponsorblock to discover someone literally cut out every time they said the name of the sponsor even if it wasnt part of the actual ad.
Oh that is true, it’s not without its flaws.
I also sometimes consciously dislike things because of annoying ads.
But it doesn’t matter. The overall result is that now you’re aware of that brand, you have a place for it in memory. After time passes it will be The One I’ve Heard Of unless you’re dedicated to remembering to avoid it. There’s something called the Mere Exposure Effect - it mostly works and they know it. :(
"You are without a doubt the worst product I’ve ever heard of.”
“But you have heard of me."
called the Mere Exposure Effect - it mostly works
…is what the 90% market leader says, who profits from it the most.
If it didn’t work they wouldm’t profit from it.
Advertising exists for a reason, and that’s becsuse it’s very effective.
That’s not how executives work.
Edit: i say, it maybe works somewhat in traditional ads but not as much in annoying ads (popups, inline, in-video) as Google promises. And that executives are often enough a bit naive in promises for savings/wins (see AI programner promises vs. reality and how they still jump on it). Also, how the internet marketplace works (programmatic advertising), it’s on mere promises only anyway.
Executives rarely work at all.
Too many people here are saying that ads don’t work.
Whether they work or not doesn’t matter. The problem is that ads are literally designed and optimized to manipulate you out of your money, and to cause you to make decisions on emotion rather than reason. This is unethical at its core. How most people are ambivalent towards companies manipulating us is beyond me.
Advertising is one of the most prolific environmental pollutants of economic activity, and needs to become as socially acceptable as smoking.
Id argue its worse than smoking. Its closer to successfully lobbying the government to force doctors to recommended smoking for newborns.
I guess you aren’t european then
This was today in a friend group of mine’s discord server
Does anybody actually PLAY raid shadow legends, or is it just an ad for nothing? I don’t think I’ve ever seen the actual game play or heard anyone ever mention playing it.
Streamers play it purely to advertise
Gaming has become such bullshit in this regard.
I mean it’s so rare nowadays to come across a game where you can tell: this is made by someone who genuinely wanted to make this game for the sake of making/playing it.
It’s always just another micro transaction storefront with graphics.
And ads aren’t any different, contrived bullshit.
*mainstream gaming.
There’s still a world out there not bothered by this. I’m a big spender but AAA gaming lost me a while ago. On all systems I’ve got more games to play than I could ever have the time for.
Good games are the ones without this problem; usually indie games are the good ones because greedy executives are not involved in them.
made by someone who genuinely wanted to make this game for the sake of making/playing it.
There is nothing wrong with developers wanting to get paid for their labor. You want, and deserve, to be paid for your labor. Why don’t they??
If you stay away from AAA, AAAA gaming and you get solid deals made by people trying to make an honest living. It’s not that hard. I haven’t bought or felt any need to buy micro transactions since Horse Armor came out.
Adblock + sponsorblock
This is the way, I am amazed how many people just rawdog the internet on a daily basis.
“This has got to be the worst advertisement I’ve ever heard.”
“Ah but you have heard it.”
“But you heard of the product!”
Someone should write an article about how interrupting ads actualy negatively affect consumer choices and then popularize it. I am ok even if its just made of shady stats, many will adapt the idea blindly anyways.
Someone should. I’m sure it has never been tried.
Surely companies will ignore decades of psychological studies and own marketing experience for a random article full of made up numbers.
It works for AI …
People are more willing to jump on popularized band wagons than you would think.
Let’s popularize it! How about advertising?
that is what I would call an implosion
Y’all are watching ads? If I see an ad, my immediate reaction is to close the tab.
