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Re: You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?

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Post by midasuni »

EvRev wrote: post #287
323 wrote: post #152

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So it should be illegal for me to wear a t-shirt with Adidas written on it? Or shoes with the Nike swoosh on it?

Yes. Find another avenue for virtue signaling that contributes on a local level. Paying for the right to be a roaming advert is what has been advertised to you, hence you are repeating the cycle. I do wear these brands, but try to subdue any labeling. i.e. black sharpie on the nike logo.

How about my christmas jumper with a character on it saying “make it snow”?

How about a picture of Scrooge saying “bah humbug”?

Re: You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?

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Post by midasuni »

luma wrote: post #99
stevehawk wrote: post #91

I think this will be a whole new issue when AR becomes standard. In fact, it's the whole reason I don't want AR. I just see ads for days coming out of it. Everyone putting little ad starting QR codes (or whatever they settle on) everywhere so every time I turn my head there's a gecko on a coffee table in the random store I'm in trying to sell my car insurance.

Depends on who owns that AR. If I own it, I could replace all the car insurance ads on the road with cute geckos doing adorable things.

I think what’s worth asking is what services will I have to use AR for.

Re: You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?

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Post by throwawaycities »

dionidium wrote: post #413
throwawaycities wrote: post #391

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> if you hate scooters laying around just wait until you hear about these things clogging up every road. I love whataboutism. I’m very fascinated to know how you live in such a fashion that you purchase food and other products that sustain your life that in no way utilize roadways. Or are you just virtue signaling and personally contribute to this road traffic you hate so much and is the real “problem” by purchasing…

As a meta point “whataboutism” is a very stupid concept. We obviously evaluate things by comparison to other things and by their relationship to other related issues. Cars and scooters compete for public space and are directly comparable. If you’re locked in a room with a kitten and a lion and I hear you complaining about the kitten, then it’s not “whataboutism” to explain to you that you’ve got bigger problems. Seco…

> Cars and scooters compete for public space and are directly comparable.

You seem to have a very difficult time understanding nuance.

I didn’t complain about scooters, I complained about companies dumping their commercial scooters on pedestrian paths specifically for obnoxious marketing purposes.

A scooter is fine if you want to own one and you don’t use it to obstruct pedestrian paths for commercial/marketing purposes. But to start dropping your commercial products and commercial marketing in the middle of paths (or roads for that matter) is the problem.

You brought up roads and cars and traffic as the “bigger problem”. Now you're suggesting the roads you are talking about were not built for cars. Are the roads you brought up with all those cars and traffic not made for for vehicles? Or you are taking about vehicles clogging up ancient Roman roads?

I’d like to engage you but you seem like a troll. Good luck with that.

Re: You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?

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Post by dylan604 »

throwawayboise wrote: post #428
dylan604 wrote: post #179

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>At multiple points in the McDonald's self-order touchscreen kiosk flow. Sounds like just one more reason in a long long long list of reasons not to go to McDonalds

It's amazing really. There has to be a business school case study there in how you go from being the trail-blazer and biggest success story in fast food, to one of the worst and getting worse with everything you do.

It's also a school case study in showing how regardless they've gone down hill in food quality, in service quality, etc, their customers continue to patronize them.

Re: You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?

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Post by 2muchcoffeeman »

sputr wrote: post #30
2muchcoffeeman wrote: post #14

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Presumably selling ad space on things like buses and bus stops helps pay for those services. I’m much more sympathetic to physical ads. I can just ignore it instead of waiting to click a skip button.

(1) Ads on busses This is the obvious spin, that anyone trying to undermine such ideas would do. So I just checked the yearly (pre-pandemic) financial report for our bus service - the buses are COVERED in adverts. From what I can tell, those ads bring in less than 2% of all income. The ads on bus stop were given in exchange for running the bike rental service, but that service isn't free to use, so the income can't b…

Curious, I checked the revenue that bus ads bring in where I live. I can't find a specific line item, but it's definitely not one of the major income streams. I assume the return:reward ratio is good. They probably outsource the management of the ad space and get some millions trickle in for no effort.

To know just how much they are affecting you, you have to go to a place with no ads.

Honestly the only ads I ever see in real life are bus and bus stop ads. Maybe it's terrible where you live, but here, I can barely remember the last one I saw. If anything I wish the local government would have more ads. They have a bunch of activities on sometimes that I don't hear about or forget because their advertising is so poor.

Re: You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?

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Post by midasuni »

Tempest1981 wrote: post #324

The amount of ads packed into an NBA basketball game on TV is startling: - each player's jersey - arena walls - courtside walls - projected onto the court floor (updated each minute) - on the side and top of the backboard - most TV graphics ("Taco Bell play of the day") - split-screen ads during free-throws - traditional commercials during time-outs Monetize all the things! It's exhausting.

But not in our dreams. No sir-ee

Re: You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?

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Post by throwawaycities »

midasuni wrote: post #447
throwawaycities wrote: post #391

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> if you hate scooters laying around just wait until you hear about these things clogging up every road. I love whataboutism. I’m very fascinated to know how you live in such a fashion that you purchase food and other products that sustain your life that in no way utilize roadways. Or are you just virtue signaling and personally contribute to this road traffic you hate so much and is the real “problem” by purchasing…

The road outside my house was there on the oldest deeds I have, from 1830. Was that built for cars? What about the roads in town that were mentioned in writings in the 1400s?

> Was that built for cars?

You tell me are cars and traffic a big problem on that road? Would it be a problem if companies started dumping their products/marketing on that road to obstruct it?

Re: You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?

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Post by midasuni »

Fnoord wrote: post #417

As soon as AR glasses take off some bright fellow will make an adblocker for it. And as soon as that happens I will want AR glasses and reward the dev for their work.

Some bright fellow will be paid to replace the Pepsi adverts with coke adverts. Ones which dance around and take even more of your attention.

Re: You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?

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Post by quickthrower2 »

smarx007 wrote: post #7

But 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…

You do have to view ads on subways though. I guess people don’t mind because they are waiting anyway. That interstitial ad only stops you for 3 seconds, maybe the same time it take for the ticket gate to open.

Re: You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?

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Post by yuliyp »

DarylZero wrote: post #252
jtbayly wrote: post #119

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I avoid them too, and I’ve never found one where pressing any buttons mutes it.

Try pouring water into the speaker.

Ah yes. trying to create sparks near gasoline vapors. What could go wrong?
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