It’s gotten so bad online that I do everything in my power to block them, prevent them, avoid them, and ignore them. I mute YouTube videos, I use adblock, and scroll right past the ads. I refuse to even look at them.
You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?
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Re: You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank the Lord reality (still) does not have cookie banners.
I don't understand the hate toward cookie banners. It's like if the citizens of a surveillance state complained if civilian-dressed informants had to carry a big ugly sign. Sure, the sign is ugly and everywhere; but maybe the actual problem is that there are so many informants that you have to see so many signs, rather than their signs being ugly. Shoot the actual problem (i.e. the dark patterns and malicious complia…
We already knew cookies were being used everywhere. I dont need to be told the same thing 100000 times because it makes some people feel better and altruistic.
It didn't bring any benefits and has wasted excessive amounts of my time.
Re: You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hate ads and I never understood the „watch ads to get content“ business plan. Why not just provide demo content and ask users to pay for full access? By relying on ads for revenue, you basically invite adblockers. After all, if people didn’t like them, they wouldn’t exist.
almost nobody pays for 'ad free' experience
The problem is that the ad-free experience often costs orders of magnitude above what the ad view would earn them. Let's take newspapers for example, ad view on a single page load would maybe earn them 10c, but if I wanted to pay I'd need to subscribe to a monthly commitment of ~15£/month (for the WSJ) and still have no guarantee my data won't be used maliciously (there is no way to pay anonymously) nor whether cancelling the subscription will be easy (no idea for the WSJ but the New York Times is infamous for this).
Re: You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?
#124I am hoping for a membership service (think Clear vs TSA PRE) that allows you to avoid ads on all (digital) platforms. YouTube and Twitter are becoming so terrible with advertisements these days. I don't want to complain about it though - I want to just pay some $$$ to not see them anymore. We went all-in on this advertising based economy and no one really wants it but the advertisers.
You can do exactly that on YouTube (with Premium). It is one of the highest value memberships I can think of, considering how much time I (and the rest of the world) spend on YouTube every day.
Ultimately though, all such solutions turn into yet another money grab. Cable TV was supposed to be this premium ad-free experience, but media conglomerates realized hey, why not get money out of both subscriptions and ads?
Re: You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?
#125But ads in real life do not prevent me from going on about my day. There is no analogy to interstitial pages with ads like in Forbes some time ago with the button Continue to your article: it would be infuriating if you had to view an ad before being able to use the subway ticketing system. You also don’t have ads on at the airport timetable screen. You don’t have pinkertons following you to learn your habits and sho…
Some new forms of IRL ads do interrupt your flow. Examples I've encountered: * In a mall touchscreen navigation kiosk, an ad is shown when you first wake up the device by touching it. * At multiple points in the McDonald's self-order touchscreen kiosk flow. * On Starbucks screen menus, the whole menu is periodically replaced with a video ad, forcing you to wait until its end to finish making your choice. > You also d…
Don’t forget the loud advertisements at the petrol pump!
Re: You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?
#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
But they do. You have to mentally process the incoming data first, then discard it. It's a waste of attention, especially with mind-catching ads you can't figure out immediately. Sometimes they are as blocking as browser pop-ups, e.g.: logotypes (or even full ads) displayed before a responsive UI is shown to you, duty-free zones in the airports, and so on. I am pretty sure we will soon have real-life targeted billboa…
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I strongly disagree, his comment is not an ad, it is content. We all came to this page looking for comments like that. Every single experience in life changes the way I think and feel, that doesn't mean everything is an ad, the defining characteristic of an ad is the fact that it is unwanted, that it is imposed on people as an attention tax imposed on some other experience we actually want.
Re: You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?
#127Because how else would google maps break ties between equally long paths when giving directions, if not by which ads you see along the way? ;)
Re: You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?
#128I can’t stand ads on government property, particularly in spaces where I am captive. The best example is public transportation. There are ads all over the station and then ads all over the interior (and exterior) of the train/bus during your ride. Why should I be subjected to this private noise while taking public transportation? Some city needs to stand up and fix this. Allow me to get where I am going in peace.
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Re: You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?
#129I am hoping for a membership service (think Clear vs TSA PRE) that allows you to avoid ads on all (digital) platforms. YouTube and Twitter are becoming so terrible with advertisements these days. I don't want to complain about it though - I want to just pay some $$$ to not see them anymore. We went all-in on this advertising based economy and no one really wants it but the advertisers.
You can do exactly that on YouTube (with Premium). It is one of the highest value memberships I can think of, considering how much time I (and the rest of the world) spend on YouTube every day. Ultimately though, all such solutions turn into yet another money grab. Cable TV was supposed to be this premium ad-free experience, but media conglomerates realized hey, why not get money out of both subscriptions and ads?
I just wish there was a one-size-fits-all approach.
Re: You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?
#130Well, a bunch of cities in Brazil where I live, banned ads too! São Paulo is a very notorious one.