• @minibyte@sh.itjust.works
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    171 year ago

    A very large chunk of what people consume these days is effectively already ads

    That’s what grinds my gears. I understand ads pay bills, but showing multiple ads before a trailer for a video game or movie is excessive.

    • TigrisMorte
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      131 year ago

      Plus nearly all advertising is insultingly stupid as to appeal to idiots.

      • @SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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        91 year ago

        Ads are a way to fill people’s heads with brand names until nothing remains except for those brands and only those brands feel safe and familiar until it becomes a conditioned reflex to choose those products. And it works.

        The Holy Market forbids people would actually choose products based on their own experience and price.

      • @Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
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        11 year ago

        Most ads are about brand recognition and not so much about trying to sell a specific product. Even if you think an ad is stupid, if you still can remember the brand then the ad worked.

        • @lookorex@lemmy.world
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          81 year ago

          That generally just makes me remember not to use that product or service because the ad was so annoyingly stupid

        • TigrisMorte
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          11 year ago

          No, it didn’t as brand recognition is desirable only if positive.

    • bitwolf
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      11 year ago

      I find it extremely funny that YouTube serving ads also strains the same video infrastructure they’re trying to increase revenue on.