ULPT: I always sabotage the poll ads whenever I see it

Posted by Intrepid_Major6577@reddit | UnethicalLifeProTips | View on Reddit | 30 comments

Whenever I see a poll ad, I will try to sabotage it by answering it in the opposite way. I did it on Facebook and YouTube. For example, if it asks, "Have you heard about these brands? Coca-Cola/Pepsi/Dr.Pepper/ARandomBrand," the obvious answer for me is ARandomBrand, yeah that's the right answer TAKE IT 🤣

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i-am-foxymoron@reddit

How do you sleep at night?!

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UnicornGuitarist@reddit

On a mattress... by mattress firm

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i-am-foxymoron@reddit

Slow down there Satan.

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Rose_Rasta@reddit

That’s just for advertising. There isn’t some grand conspiracy type thing you’re fighting against. Enjoy the random weird brand soda adds. Thats all you’re getting by doing that

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zack397241@reddit

That's exactly what someone with knowledge of a grand conspiracy would say

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DookieShoez@reddit

……..you figured us out.

See, the grand conspiracy was to convince conspiracy theorists that these ads were a conspiracy, thus getting them to talk about them to everyone they can, as they do, in order to drive interest and engagement.

Unfortunately, we can’t have you blow the lid off it so the microchips we put in your vaccine are gonna wipe your memory while you’re sleeping tonight.

Ta ta

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zack397241@reddit

Jokes on you, I just did an IV with bleach to kill the microchip

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DookieShoez@reddit

Ha! Only works if you stick a UV bulb up your butt at the same time 😝

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zack397241@reddit

I never take it out

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ParanoidCrow@reddit

It disrupts the ad algorithm they have for you tho

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Flaky-Wallaby5382@reddit

Simply statistics accounts for this

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UnicornGuitarist@reddit

Pebis Lite it is then!

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bluecat2001@reddit

From the company that brought you Pubis Mite

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MomAndDadSaidNotTo@reddit

There is nothing unethical whatsoever about fucking with advertisers
They're fishing for engagement. If you interact with the ad in any way, they win.

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Yussso@reddit

It's not even a protips.

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ArcherFawkes@reddit

Report it and it goes away without giving them engagement lol

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jKaz@reddit

r/firstworldararchists

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Diamond83@reddit

“I always fill out the poll adds, but I totally own them by not sharing my real preferences”

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EnthusedPhlebotomist@reddit

I refuse to answer even if it skips the ad for me.

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lucky_young_matador@reddit

Joke's on you though, they're actually gathering data on how many people pick a fake brand in polls.

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Purlz1st@reddit

I used to do something similar with my grandmother’s supermarket rewards card. Senior citizen buying tampons, beer, and pop tarts? Sure!

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pohlcat01@reddit

I always select none of the above, or similar.

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baboudali-@reddit

These polls are called “brand lift studies” and they’re used to measure of effective a brand’s ads are. So let’s say you pick you’ve only heard “random brand” over Coca Cola and Pepsi, the brand running the study will think they’re ads are inefficient. Which is a pretty good way to f with them because they’ll need to spend more money on new awareness ad campaigns :)

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Actual_Doughnut9248@reddit

I just answer randomly

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GerudosValley@reddit

I always skip them

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taintmaster900@reddit

The only way to defeat those is to not feed them any information at all.

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Tr1pfire@reddit

Someone else might have the link but there's a few programs that automatically do that for you, they send fake and/or false info to all those brands who track you, some even sending fake Google data to them. Telling the advertisers you googled makeup or something when you never have to throw off their profile on you.

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