 I’m not even against the general concept of advertising. I’ve gone to shows bc I saw a flyer, I’ve bought records bc someone did a live set on the radio, and I’ll even go out of my way and subscribe to print magazines that have well curated ads that are actually relevant to shit I might want to buy (looking at you, Fine Woodworking) But annoying, distracting predatory tracking shit hawking products I don’t even want while I’m trying to talk to my friends? Fuck off with this shit 4 comments
 @sidereal the media publishers pissed on their own chips in the 2000s by giving so much space on websites etc to ads (more than the actual content) and hiding ads in "real" content (a dead giveaway is when I'm reading something in a language other than English and "articles" in English randomly appear due to adtech geolocation)   @sidereal Yeah, time was when people bought hobby magazines mainly for the advertisements! Electronics, stamp collecting, fishing, whatever. I wonder to what extent that's still a thing (I don't buy any these days). [Actually I do read one hobby magazine, for pilots, but I'm not interested in the ads. If I wanted to buy a plane I'd probably look online first.] |
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Fine Woodworking passively attempting to sell me a new block plane I probably don’t need is completely different from instagram ads trying to make me feel lonely and fat.