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Laurens 🧢

@fixatedpersonsunit You can train your consciousness to "ad block" and ignore advertising, both visually and audibly. I'm typing this while there's a commercial block on the radio. Those go in one ear and out the other, so to speak. I just ignore them.

19 Sep 2023 at 10:02 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social
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Sam Adeleine

@ElBeeToots @fixatedpersonsunit
1) Are you sure they're not affecting you? Being hyperaware of ads might make you less likely to be influenced by them, because you associate their message with disgust.
2) Not everyone can control their focus that way—cf #ADHD—which makes advertising an issue of #ableism.

19 Sep 2023 at 18:10 | Open on tech.lgbt
Laurens 🧢

@samadeleine
1) Yes, I'm sure. I am aware of the existence of ads and commercials, but they neither entice nor disgust me and I really need to focus my attention on them to 'get' their message. I can't explain it otherwise. The only way a commercial or ad sometimes stands out to me is when it's funny or very obnoxious. And even then I won't be enticed to buy their product.

2) Yes, I know. That's an "art" that advertising companies have perfected to the maximum 😒

@fixatedpersonsunit

@samadeleine
1) Yes, I'm sure. I am aware of the existence of ads and commercials, but they neither entice nor disgust me and I really need to focus my attention on them to 'get' their message. I can't explain it otherwise. The only way a commercial or ad sometimes stands out to me is when it's funny or very obnoxious. And even then I won't be enticed to buy their product.

19 Sep 2023 at 18:48 | Open on mastodon.social
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