Uno Reverse: I boycott every product in every ad I see
How do you do that? Do you see no ads or do you keep a list of not to buy?
Or just when the effect kicks in and you remember sth out of the ads you don’t buy it?
Also if sth. needs as much ads as raid shadow legends you can safely assume it is not worth it’s money
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I almost get zero ads, I would if I lived alone
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Yes
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That too
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Basically
It’s almost easier to go “I’ve heard of this… nah.”
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haha… same here… i boycott for 6 months after i have seen an ad.
toughest one so far had been seeing an ad of my favourite coffee brand a couple years back
Ads are supposed to target our cognitive unconscious.
Think about a car advertisement. Its not supposed to make you buy the car, it’s supposed to make you aware of the car and what it represents. Its mass imposition of a dezired emotional connection to the producers and that which they promote.
They are conditioning us through imposition.
And you know that the masses are bombarded with it, so you know the overton window is shifted towards corporations. Anyone could challenge such an imposition, but it is not a single one, but thousand upon thousand.
Society are conditioned by capital through imposition.
When we see an imposition, we can either let it condition us or react to it.
By reacting, we entertain their framing which can make the imposition more effective.
There’s always someone saying something like this in any “I hate ads” kind of thread but I gotta say that it sounds like the sort of shit marketers want everyone to believe because they want to drive demand for them.
I’m calling bullshit and don’t believe that marketers have unlocked any kind of mind control powers that work on everyone including those hostile to what they are trying to say and that our subconscious are so easy to manipulate once we’ve become aware of those manipulations.
Everyone has mindcontrol. I can even force you into thinking about a house being covered with butter. You see?
Digital ads do not promote things I’m interested in buying. I do not see ads very often at all - I haven’t had a TV for 20+ years, I don’t go to cinemas, so I don’t even see those kinds of ads. Occasional ads on YT pop up, and I’ll skip them; if they are unskippable or too frequent, I’ll abandon the vid. I’m not on any commercial “social media”, so I don’t see ads on them either. I’ve just never liked social media - Lemmy and Mastodon are all I use these days.
Occasionally, very, very occasionally, I’ll see a meatspace ad that I pay attention to: there’s a local alternative music collective that wheatpaste ads around in a nearby town. I actually WANT to know about these events, and I will actually go to them, and I actually sought them out in the first place. I also see ads at my local community centre, for local events. Same kind of thing.
So how is this resistance futile?
I actively look to ads on purpose to remember what NOT to buy anytime anywhere for all my life. I only follow ads from small creators when they are clearly not invasive or disruptive and only if they are supporting the creator clearly.
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God I feel this. If I’m at someone else’s house, or a bar and free to air is on, I’ get so distracted. I think it’s partly the ADHD partly the fact every ad is brand new to me. Distraction is the
So distracted they couldn’t finish the thought
When I was eating dinner with my ex we liked to put on a youtube video to watch. We always did it on my phone even tho the screen is smaller because I use YouTube vanced, so we didn’t have to watch any ads or sponsored segments. Anytime we would have to use her phone cause mine was empty or something I annoyed the hell out of me that we had to watch two ads just for a 16 minute video
I don’t want to be blind to it. I want to be able to snipe it from ten kilometers away.
I don’t use adblock just so I don’t have to see ads, I use adblock so that every time I view a news article I don’t have 50 different domains grabbing my browser fingerprint to build a profile on me that can be used to bypass my 4th amendment right to privacy.
As someone with ADHD, nah.
I’ve almost seen zero ads in about 15 years. I use all the types of adblockers: browser extensions and dns-based. I don’t use traditional TV or movie theatres. I don’t read printed magasines. So really, really close to no ads in 15 years. Yesterday I went to the fueling station with my car: there was nobody else. They changed the station so now, there’s screens showing ads and really loud audio. Since there was nobody else, I could hear all 8 pump’s ads screaming at the same time. It was really dystopian and overstimulating. I only managed to put like 5 litres and I couldn’t stand it, I was screaming at the screen to stop shouting at me. I did pay my 5 litres that I put in, but I left for another gas station. I will never return to that one, which was my usual one.
Gas pump ads are the worst. I stopped going to a station because they couldn’t be muted, and they’re the ads that scream at you or brain rot craft videos. I wouldn’t have minded so much if was only the “good news” segment or usefull PSAs. But yelling at me at 7am to buy beef jerky is not okay.
If a person came up to you at the pup and offered a flyer, that’s okay. But if they started screaming at you to buy their shit, that’d be harassment. Gas pumps should not be allowed to “harass” people.
Find the speakers, take a safety pin, poke through the speaker holes. Problem solved.
Luckily the stations near me that play ads only play ads when you’re actively pumping gas.
Of course they sound horrific now that all the speakers are blown, you can’t even tell what the ad is trying to say.
Second button from the top on the right side.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.
And when it doesn’t, an air can upside-down in the speaker grille leaves no evidence.
Fuck that leave evidence. I want them to know it was me who destroyed their ad machine
Did you forget that your car has a license plate and registration lol
At a certain point it becomes cult-like and you reel in disgust.
Ad Block already exists on TV:
Yeah it’s just annoying to have to keep paying attention anyway so you know when to unmute. So you end up watching a little bit of silent ads anyway.
Depends. On some Smart TVs, if you try to mute advertisements on certain streaming platforms, it won’t let you. It will only go to half volume.
Fuckin right
Life is hell
Nah, I have decades of practice filtering out ads and the old habits come right back when I have to endure them.
I’m so thankful my parent’s rule was that we muted TV commercials. Crazy how many people don’t think to just mute youtube ads and pay attention to something else for 30 seconds.
I find it pretty easy actually, it’s alien now but in a way that can be classified and instantly dismissed.
Same goes for influencers and internet celebrities. Or any celebrity.
Being almost completely detached from that lifestyle… It’s very weird seeing it.
…it’s scary too. That culture starts to look more like the culture of skid row. Just people that lost their minds. (Heavy generalization)
Shit… Just people that do those selfy videos with their opinion creep me tf out. …and twitter opinions… Etc… what a weird place we live. And most of the opinions are just regular marketed news opinions recycled because these people don’t even know how to be genuine or think for themselves. I feel like there’s an epidemic and most people are zombies detached from honest genuine humanity. And it’s so prominent…
Once you zoom out and view the humanity from a detached state, it just looks so fucking brainless, immature, and lacking integrity. …even the “successful” people.
Tge problem isn’t so much that people have changed. It is that these people are more visible. It’s a scale issue. The general public has always been this stupid, but before social media, they just kept to their local communities or even just their own households. Now those communities are online, global and mainstream and even the houswewives you wouldn’t normally see are there. It’s all the people, all at once.
Unless you want to do something about it, you can best ignore them. Stick to your own group and your own family. You’ll be much happier that way.
If you do want to do something. Repetition is key. Keep having the arguments that seem so pointless. Keep pointing to tge facts and the science,even though they don’t seem to listen. If they hear it often enough and from enough directions, it might spark something.
My reaction is instant annoyance and avoidance. I don’t remember anything about the ad either, so it doesn’t make it any more memorable either.
My reaction…
Exactly.
My brain just hears “buy product! We like our product to spend money on it to try to influence you! Now look at these pictures or hear these sounds of said product”
Like man in a suit walking up to me on the street and asking if I’d buy a cheeseburger from him because he likes it a lot.
Enjoy your product sir, ill be leaving now.
Like man in a suit walking up to me on the street and asking if I’d buy a cheeseburger from him because he likes it a lot.
I see you’ve met Danny. How’s he doing these days?
Yeah, but not really… If I hear annoying commercial (that would usually be just another commercial) that somehow slips through an ad blocker, I’ll hate it with a passion of 10000 burning suns. I’ll go extra distance to actively avoid that product…
On the other hand, my dad will sing the jingle whole day and then buy the item next time he sees it. -_-
Your dad sounds like a Level 7 Susceptible.
