“This product’s ad intrerupted what I was watching. I will now wholly support this company by purchasing their products.”

Who are you, and why are you this way?

  • NecroticEuphoria@lemmy.ml
    13·
    8 months ago

    What I read about ads once made sense to me:

    It’s not as much about making the product look good or convincing people that they absolutely it. It’s more about people remembering it, whether they want to or not.

    Marketing companies have entire departments for making sure ads waste as much of your memory as possible. As a bonus, they also burn up the climate.

    • comfy@lemmy.ml
      7·
      8 months ago

      Yep, I think one of the Subvertiser groups first told me: ads shit in your head.

      I view ads with the same revulsion as a manipulative villian. Like OP says, I can’t understand how people accept and tolerate it. Taking up public space, taking up over a quarter of commercial television, pretending to be real user posts online, fighting for your attention all hours of the day. I’m so, so glad non-for-profit forums like this exist for a breath of air (I use Tor to avoid trackers, which shouldn’t be used with an ad blocker)

      That, and “influencers”. Like I said a couple of days ago in another post, it’s surprising how such and ominous, creepy term became accepted and normalized.

  • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
    3·
    8 months ago

    “This product’s ad intrerupted what I was watching. I will now wholly support this company by purchasing their products.”

    I don’t think this is what you could call “tolerance”. Tolerance for marketing is just getting used to it and not minding it. In the capitalist society the marketing is everywhere and you can’t avoid it so it’s often the case.