I use ad blockers and open source privacy focused software whenever I can but occasionally I have to use computers that don’t belong to me or an older phone where my usual applications aren’t installed and seeing all the advertisements just feels dirty and dystopian.
I think the worst ads are the text to speech ones that say “Download this app today”. The unblinking energenic people saying you can make a living at home are probably a close second.
You actually find ads blaring at you amusing? What a truly horrid unpopular opinion. I’ll respect that though if you’re actually serious but it’s hard for me to comprehend.
I bet $5 they work in the advertising industry in some way, or maybe benefit from it.
Nope I work in customer service.
Fair enough, I’m just not able to relate to someone who enjoys ads without a personal interest involved. I’m at the point where I hate ads so much that even if it is something that interests me, most advertisements are more likely to get me to avoid a product than pursue it.
I do understand hating ads to some extent because when I was growing up, they made me feel uncomfortable but later on I realized it was because I was watching tv with other people. So it was really just other people making me feel uncomfy and not the ad’s - when I watched ads on my own I found them interesting when I actually paid attention to them.
What do you mean by personal interest though? Most tv ad’s I see now aren’t even for someone like me. Like I have no need for viagra pills or dog meds. I’m not a guy with dick problems and I don’t own a dog. I see a lot of ads for like 65+ people too cause that’s who’s left watching and they know it.
Ads are never “blaring” at me. I control the volume on my tv.
Sorta. But the FCC does, too, because advertisers were being dicks about even that: https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/government-verify/loud-tv-commercials-regulated-by-fcc-under-calm-act-fact-check/536-277e7a74-5e9b-427c-982b-fbf2bf49e2aa
oh yes! I remember hearing about this a few years ago from someone I use to be friends with. I always wondered why suddenly I’d be watching comedy central, and having to turn down the volume as fast as possible because some ad was just insanely loud.
I haven’t experienced anything like that recently but I notice some channels are quieter than others. Like everything is more quite on FXX than it is on COZI tv. I feel like that’s something else though cause the volume doesn’t vary for the ads like it use to.