I do exactly same.

Every day brings us closer to All-Despising Baby Skull.

It’s not piracy to shut your ears and plug your eyes whenever an ad is playing … at least not yet. Give the lobbyists a few weeks.

Remember kids, advertising is just the graffiti of the rich.

I got banned from twitter for a week back before it went nazi by shit talking every ad it put in front of me.

I fucking hate ads! Nothing makes me want to buy something less than seeing an ad for something I never asked for in the first place. If I need something I will look it up myself!

I genuinely haven’t seen any ads for 20 years now except in the odd waiting room or someone else’s house. It’s surprising how creepy and strange they are once you’re a few years removed from them. You start to notice parallels between cult members and people who don’t avert their eyes from ads.

Agree. Honestly, websites just feel so much cleaner without ads. Like, ads are literal visual pollution and I hate it.

Ive always had a neutral attitude to gambling, Im not into it but its fine if people do it responsibly. But with all these ads from phone gambling apps, it’s seems like an aggressively predatory relationship between the casinos and gamblers and offer only lip service response to gambling addiction. I now am very firmly against further legalization of gambling and think that advertising should be illegal.

Adnauseum for firefox (both pc and android), and PiHole for network-level. When my dad comes over, hes always surprised that his tablet’s crossword game doesnt have ads inbetween levels!

I broke my friends tv last week trying to avoid ads

One exception is I like some ads while watching TV shows/movies in a group. They’re a built-in break for me to run off an go to the bathroom, get snacks, etc. They’re still generally too frequent, but too many is better than none.

There should be a 100% tax on every company’s advertising budget. For every dollar they spend on advertising they should have to pay just as much.

advertising is for knowing what not to buy

I have very few ads in my life, because I hate them with a passion. As an autistic person, ads don’t even work on me to the same extent, and I hate having to sit through them.

I have opted into a government program, that means I don’t recieve ads or “free newspapers” in my letterbox. I use special webapps with integrated adblock and curator extensions on my browsers, and even custom scripts using scriptmonkey to get it away. On my TV I run SmartTube, which not only removes ads, but also automatically skips sponsor and other filler from videos, as well as removes clickbait titles where possible using DeArrow.

I run Linux, I have set up all my devices to use adblocking DNS, and I have run a PiHole for years. The only thing in my home that shows ads at this point, is my google TV that will suggest a show on viaplay or prime or whatever, and it is the only thing I cannot get rid of.

The reason I dislike ads, is that these corporations are fucking scum. They collude to ruin people’s self-esteem, and to overflood the market with needless materialist bullshit that we don’t need, by exploiting our deepest insecurities. As AI becomes more normalized, it will get even more insidious. People talk to their chatbots like they are their friends, and soon those chatbots will subtly manipulate them into buying hair products that don’t work, because they see a picture in your photos gallery of you slightly balding, and see you talked to it about feeling insecure about your appearence lately.

Ending my rant with a quote by banksy:

“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. 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.”