Anon dislikes ads | TheaterFire

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I wouldn't mind ads so much if YouTube videos were made around them or they just showed me them all at once up front. That and if there weren't as many per video. Some videos shouldn't even have ads as they're less than a minute.

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Rakeittakeit@reddit

ublockorigin ffs

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Top_Boysenberry_6552@reddit

\> removed from Chrome [Web Store](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm)

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Rakeittakeit@reddit

then use firefox dingus

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ChoiceFudge3662@reddit

Someone ought to make a router or some shit that automatically blocks all ads across your entire internet, make it cheap and affordable, make sure everyone has one, I want to kill ads, I want to wipe them off the face of the planet, and the best way to do it is to give people the tools and the knowledge to do it themselves.

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g16zz@reddit

make a opnsense router and install Adguard with some block lists. not the best if you work from home but holy shit is it effective

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maxiligamer@reddit

A Pi-hole does exactly that although it's a bit of a pain to set up and isn't perfect. I feel like if everyone had an ad blocking router there would be some problems as ad blocking only really works as long as the majority still view ads.

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Ladenverzippelnogip@reddit

Ralf Schumacher?

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mr_sandmam@reddit

Slop people. I've had people confess to me that they LIKE the ads they get and that they allow every cookie possible in order to make them as personalized as possible so that the can "know when there are good deals". I couldn't believe my ears. These people, the perfect consumers, DO exist and in big numbers. They don't question, they long to be free of their money and will help corporations accelerate this process. It's truly horrible. There is a gold mine to exploit in slop people.

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ThebrooklinKnyte343@reddit

In Sales, scam calls, YouTubers, Twitch Streamers, Actors. You’d be surprised how annoyance=profit.

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Advanced_Court501@reddit

Seriously not being able to do the simplest workarounds to avoid ads in 2025 astounds me. You can literally use youtube adfree with background play on APPLE DEVICES for free with 0 effort. So many people don’t even try to avoid ads like they were taught it alongside death and taxes

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DoktorMantisTobaggan@reddit

What’s the YouTube workaround?

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Top_Boysenberry_6552@reddit

idk what it is for apple but i just use Firefox + ublock orgin to watch yt

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Femboy_hater@reddit

A thing called sheer exposure principle: https://preview.redd.it/i5x0tdzu4hbf1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=90905fe94324542459f9283d1743f1e77825dc6e

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Rorschach333@reddit

you are correct but it is called mere exposure

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lornlynx89@reddit

Sheep fear the shear exposure

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MantrTheTomboyFan@reddit

that's why instead of ignoring ads, I purposely remember the product and brand so that I can remember what Not to but

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AntiPiety@reddit

You’re not outsmarting a billion dollar industry

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nyaasgem@reddit

Apart from sponsors from youtubers, all ads I ever got were subscription based. Except that funny intim trimmer with balls jokes. I only ever had 3 subscriptions in my entire life. Basic utilities, internet and spotify. Where did the almighty algorithms ever think I ever want to use any of the trash subscription services they kept advertising to me? Anyway I don't have this problem anymore because I've been using adblockers, sponsorblock and consent-o-matic for more than a decade now.

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Little_Emma06@reddit

Petty as a crow haha

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Hanza-Malz@reddit

Same. Especially so if the ad keeps getting repeated

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Free_Puff_Daddy@reddit

Hell yes, I do this exact same thing.

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Carti_Barti9_13@reddit (OP)

Please put a trigger warning before uploading an image of a white woman

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Frenchybaby01@reddit

A fair and reasonable request

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XAlphaWarriorX@reddit

One time, in class, i saw someone get an ad on their phone, one of those stupid fake games ads. Then... I saw them click on the ad, open the app store, download the game and start playing it. Horrific sight.

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PedDeT00@reddit

Psychopath behaviour right there

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40hzHERO@reddit

Lol I did that once for one of those tower defense games. Sani about 72 hours straight in to it, then never touched it again. Depression is weird.

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Konakuro@reddit

That's funny, I've done the same thing. Maybe it's our brains desperately searching for dopamine. Those games are specifically made to flood you with it.

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Arthur_Burt_Morgan@reddit

Oh dont get me started, thos games make you feel like you are really good and winning at first, but then they make it so hard that you need to go into the pay 2 win stuff. Candy crush was entirely driven by this

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ShortsAndLadders@reddit

I’m convinced anybody who has complete over 500+ levels in Candy Crush is a gambling addict. Everybody I know with high levels in that game has a legitimate gambling addiction that they fail to recognize *or* won’t willfully address. I’ve noticed similar tendencies with claw machine gamers.

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Arthur_Burt_Morgan@reddit

Oh definitely. Its often disguised gambling. My country has lootboxes banned for that reason. My mom was really into it, played for hours on end, poured a considerable amount of money into it untill i explained that she was basically gambling.

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Newclearfallout@reddit

In rural America. Where i am, every mother plays a fake gambling game, their sons are look crate gambling, pokemon card pack openings. Grandparents at the local shell station playing slots.... Even went down to the smoke shop, Lady has a dude live streaming his Vegas gambling while she's playing those apps... like come on....

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casey-primozic@reddit

Easy dopamine more specifically

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naturalbornsinner@reddit

You'd be surprised how many people would do this. There's a reason we have so many ads and they're everywhere these days. Tech literate people are the "psychopaths" that don't "feel" the need to click the ads and they're annoyed by them. Hell. Even I have caught myself looking at the ads of some shitty game and thinking I could do better. Those ads are insidious by making you want to "fix them".

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EBthe13@reddit

That’s how this “I can fix her” work…

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runswithclippers@reddit

Im like 83% sure they’re joking

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WantsToDieBadly@reddit

The ones that show crap gameplay or ' can you beat this!' are the worst as you feel inclined to play it to show your better

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misterpickles69@reddit

Just raw doggin’ YouTube ads like a GI in Saigon.

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StandardN02b@reddit

Literal NPC behavior.

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-Danksouls-@reddit

Lmao that’s actually the opposite I know what your saying it sounds dystopian and corporate, some dude saw the ad then listened to the ad But actually most people don’t click ads. Most avoid them. Going straight for it Instead of being influenced over time is someone so in touch with their free will

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Legend13CNS@reddit

I don't understand how NPCs are real and get through life. No hobbies, no critical thinking, just existing.

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ed_xyz@reddit

Let's be real, we're probably all NPCs in someone's eyes.

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Legend13CNS@reddit

To people we meet in passing, or coworkers we only know through Teams? Absolutely. But I'm sure we've all properly met people, gotten to know them some and it turns out they're actually like that. Those are the ones that don't compute with me.

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Mell0wYell0ws@reddit

That's something an NPC would say...

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dinglebarry9@reddit

Small kine want to play that one game that Ebony got in trouble for advertising despite not being part of their game

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kdawgnmann@reddit

My wife has discovered multiple games that way, lol

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RedditHatesFreedoms@reddit

You were basically a mobile game ad that she clicked on at one point

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JDude13@reddit

Okay but I wanna play that game where the dude gets multiplied into 20 dudes then all those dudes whip out machine guns then get multiplied by 5 again and mow down zombies. I held out for months but eventually I just wanted to play it. It looked so satisfying. Turns out it’s nothing like the ads. Lesson learned

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Apprehensive_Bug_172@reddit

My gf does that.

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mitsurugui@reddit

dump her

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StandardN02b@reddit

For the good of the gene pool.

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Nasapigs@reddit

> ~~gene~~ **game** pool. ftfy

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ChickenNutBalls@reddit

No way. You want a dumb girlfriend.

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The_King_7067@reddit

\>be me \>see game ad \>looks like a fun way to kill time on the go, just braindead satisfaction \>remember all the ads with fake gameplay \>this time will surely be different \>download game \>open it \>it's entirely different gameplay \>bamboozled yet again

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MarcosLuisP97@reddit

Worst part is when the AD itself has gameplay on it. Like, you already designed the demo. Make the rest of the fucking game.

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rstrstrs@reddit

I want to pull those lava/water/gold pins

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Hex4Nova@reddit

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2348100/YEAH_YOU_WANT_THOSE_GAMES_RIGHT_SO_HERE_YOU_GO_NOW_LETS_SEE_YOU_CLEAR_THEM/

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Wooper176@reddit

Cool game but who's gonna sit at their computer and play a glorified mobile game?

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MetalUpstairs@reddit

You'd be surprise how popular gachas are on pc

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The_King_7067@reddit

So far I've found one game that actually has gameplay similar to the ad and it's gooner bait, guess they didn't need to lie to attract (it's called Run Goddess, which was fun for a bit but it's a gacha game n I ain't got time for that shit)

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FreshFromNowhere@reddit

not a human being, but a flesh automaton without a soul

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euxneks@reddit

This is the new generation's "picked their booger and ate it"

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YoungDiscord@reddit

A man who has nothing left to lose

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BA-Animations@reddit

A man who has nothing left to lose may be a man who would sell the world

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delta4873@reddit

And that's why companies advertise that this, it actually works.

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stillmahboi@reddit

Relearn English, and it's amazing that 7 people upvoted you

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JuanHernandes89@reddit

I'm sorry but I must down vote you. Why? It's simple. Mocking people for whatever reason is in no way funny or unique. I am truly sorry Maybe you will take this as a learning experience Reddit is a gift to this world

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stillmahboi@reddit

😢🙏

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mrchicano209@reddit

Believe it or not straight to the psych ward

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Fleedjitsu@reddit

Most of those games are played incredibly badly in the ad. The whole idea is to infuriate you into downloading and playing the game so you can complete whatever task was being failed in the ad.

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SummerDaemon@reddit

Blumhouse worthy horror

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Derbloingles@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/fv6d22jlqhbf1.jpeg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bd1c71b06a0706b473b33d47df03c02a04ef3147

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Turbulent-Loquat3749@reddit

I mean curiosity is fine,if he played 1-2 min got bored and deleted then fine,but If he keeps playing that and enjoying,i have bad news for him 0_0

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random_stoner@reddit

Found the Raid Shadow Legends™ enjoyer

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dotheeroar@reddit

Every once in a blue moon I will get an ad about an interesting product I didn’t know about, but 90% of the ads I get on YT are for fucking brain rot mobile games

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AlbinoEisbaerReal@reddit

netflix has ads

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sleepingcat1234647@reddit

The first day of economic class our teacher showed us an image with 100 company logo on it then asked us to name each one. We did it easily. Then she showed an image with 100 different plants. At most we could 3 or 4. Advertising fucking work

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NightOwl3031@reddit

I can understand ads by smaller companies, but tell me why the fuck am I getting ads for FACEBOOK of all things??!! Basically the entire fucking human population knows about it and uses it, why am I having it advertised to me?

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4thmonkey96@reddit

Hey guys. We have to support these businesses. While there are convenient apps and plugins that make your internet experience much much better by absolutely decimate those annoying as fuck ads before they even dare set foot on your browser like #Ublock origin, don't use them. To support the business of course!

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Dissasterix@reddit

Imagine this: There are no more toilet paper commercials in 2026. Do TP sales go up, down or stay the same? I think it stays the same, or consistent. Arguably people won't buy [brand] TP, but if the product IS actually superior then market forces have it covered. Do the same with sugar-water and yak-piss. Its so wasteful I can barely stand it. Hey PepsiCo, wanna save a billion dollars next year? Commercials only make sense for new products/services. If [brand] has been around for years and years, they should no longer be allowed to scream into the wind. And WHY TF am I getting XFinity commercials on my XFinity TV?! Make it make sense.

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AwesomEspurr360@reddit

MUG Root Beer doesn't even use advertising and is still known as one of the best root beer brands by consumers.

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Dissasterix@reddit

I live near Detroit, so its Verners and Faygo all day :] Granted Faygo does run billboards, but still.

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JerryUitDeBuurt@reddit

It depends on price elasticity and market competition I guess. Toilet paper will mostly stay the same as everyone (apart from 4chinners) need toilet paper. Sugar-water is a different one because it's not a product necessary for survival and there's competition. Spending money on ads can pay your investment back if it means people aren't buying from your competitor. But sometimes ads really are just idiotic. I once got an ad to join Reddit on my Reddit homepage. They spend money (or better, lose out on selling ad space to others) to get me to use a social media platform that I'm already actively using.

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The_Junton@reddit

"Necessary for survival" good sir I beg to differ, as a bidet™ user I have to say this is quite the preposterous statement as I haven't wiped since 95' and I could only postulate you are one of those *plebians* who do not own a bidet™ Perchance?

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Ayaki_05@reddit

I haven't wiped since 95' aswell🗿 Also what is a bidet™

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RedditHatesFreedoms@reddit

Wiping is gay

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noregertsman@reddit

New anal cunt song?

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nyaasgem@reddit

You walk around with a wet ass?

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The_Junton@reddit

Do you take me for some kind of barbarian? No I use a hair dryer like a civilised person

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JerryUitDeBuurt@reddit

Bro carries a whole ass backpack of supplies rather than just using wet wipes like a normal person

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Dissasterix@reddit

Well, there's only a few sugar-water manufacturers, its basically a duopoly once you factor in parents companies. People are helplessly addicted to their products... Still seems wasteful. New flavors, maybe, but otherwise no. Their sales loss will be compensated by not buying ad slots at sportsball.

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Phayzon@reddit

> And WHY TF am I getting XFinity commercials on my XFinity TV?! This is the most baffling part of it to me. My aunt and uncle have the whole package- TV, Internet, Phone and even Mobile. Any time we're at their house for a family gathering, I still hear/see ads on their TV??? They could not *possibly* be giving them any more money! Likewise, I have Verizon internet at home and if I happen to use a device without some sort of adblock, I'll sometimes get a FIOS internet ad?? Not even TV or phone, just internet. I have the fastest package they offer to my address. What more do you want???

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SaxophoneGuy24@reddit

Pepsi only spends billions in marketing because Coke does as well. The only way that abstaining from marketing wouldn’t make any effect on sales is if Coke (and other relevant competitors) all decided to completely stop.

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Dissasterix@reddit

I fail to see how its even possible, though. Especially given the $1Bil. starting advantage to [non-advert brand]. Granted that's a made up number. Someone commented that this has been tried, but I didn't find anything (quickly, at work, on mobile)... Perhaps you can link me. I understand that [brand] seeks to maximize market dominance. But it just feels like a self-fulfilling prophecy. I'm asking myself: "What percentage loss of market share would be significant enough to change my mind." I may not have a number locked in, but I guarantee my number is a lot bigger than their number. The reality is any number is too big for the CFO. So, its already grain-of-salty. Another layer here is the likelihood that not having big-soda money will hurt the telecoms. Those ad slots would be empty, and new investors don't have f-u capital to burn. There is probably other similar blow-back. Thus the FCC would never impose such regulations, as it would hurt their constituents/lobby.

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zw1ck@reddit

Pretty sure coke tried this and Pepsi immediately began to overtake them in sales. Doesn't matter how well known or ubiquitous your product is. People need to be reminded to buy it.

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Dissasterix@reddit

Perhaps it was something else-- What I'm finding is [this](https://www.marketingweek.com/mark-ritson-pg-coke-dont-cut-ad-spend/). Where Coke sales slipped during the Pandemic but P&G did well. Which is not surprising given the pandemic-- Out with the junk food and in with the cleaning supplies.

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AntiProtonBoy@reddit

Most people perceive ads as white noise and only make a choice right in front of the supermarket shelves when they are presented with a few options. This is the point where branding truly matters, entice the next sucker to impulse buy shit they don’t need.

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Deathgripsugar@reddit

lol @ zoomers not understanding what commercials are. That’s what cable was supposed to solve: you pay money and commercials go away (I.e. premium streaming services), like with HBO etc. Nothing is free: pay with your money or your attention.

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Komania@reddit

Except now you pay for a subscription and still get ads...

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hotwheelearl@reddit

But if you pay EVEN MORE you don’t get ads lol

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JerryUitDeBuurt@reddit

You forget the in between one, where you pay a bit extra to still get ads just not as many. Nobody actually buys that but it's to justify you paying even more for the full adless plan.

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40hzHERO@reddit

And then the video just has sponsored content anyway, and the host breaks off every 15 minutes to do their own commercial. Lol kill me

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JerryUitDeBuurt@reddit

I still think it's doable. Adblocker still works on Firefox and youtube has that feature where you can see where people replay often, so it just tells you where to skip to. And if that feature doesn't work you just skip through the video manually. I get ads are cancer but for YouTubers, especially the ones that actually make good content, I get they gotta make a few bucks.

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PowerSlaveAlfons@reddit

If you end up skipping in-video sponsors a lot, I'd suggest just using sponsorblock to automatically skip it instead.

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40hzHERO@reddit

Yeah. I use an adblocker on my computer, but haven’t found a way to use one with my iPhone or Xbox. Agreed they gotta make money, but we’ve been inundated with ads everywhere, left and right.

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FHFH913@reddit

Ad lovers are super happy in this day and age :(

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twofacetoo@reddit

The problems are 1. A lot of TV back in the day was *designed* to work *around* the ads, every singular 30 minute episode of 'Friends' was basically two 15-minute episodes woven together with a break in the middle for the ads to play, then the second half would pick up and continue where the first half ended on a 'cliffhanger'. Internet ads just pop up whenever they feel like and are usually interrupting you in the middle of something, like appearing mid-sentence. 2. Not only that but when the show itself was actually *on*, you were usually free from ads (except for those annoying pop-ups at the bottom of the screen advertising other shows on the same channel). When your show started, you were relatively unmolested and allowed to just enjoy it. Again, the ads nowadays appear constantly, on the sides of the screen when you're reading an article, or jumping out throughout a video at various points. This is why I have adblock. Not because I disagree with ads as a concept, because I hate how predatory and obnoxious they've become.

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F-Lambda@reddit

>1. A lot of TV back in the day was *designed* to work *around* the ads, every singular 30 minute episode of 'Friends' was basically two 15-minute episodes woven together with a break in the middle for the ads to play, then the second half would pick up and continue where the first half ended on a 'cliffhanger'. Anime as well, that's why there's the mid-episode logo thing (which are apparently called an "eyecatch"). and of course Crunchyroll being the morons they are still put ads on random locations

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Deathgripsugar@reddit

Good points, but streaming ads (particularly for YouTube content) are still evolving. To your point, a content creator can create spots in their videos where you can insert a commercial, maybe that needs to happen. I’ve seen podcasts do it, but you tubers are too lazy to make things easier for their audience.

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LordMarcusrax@reddit

Oooor, I can use an adblock.

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Deathgripsugar@reddit

It’s an arms race. It won’t matter until the YouTube loses enough eyeballs to care. As boomers and old Xers are replaced with younger and more tech savvy adults, the eyeballs will disappear and your ad blockers will all a sudden stop working. The solution to ads is make them less of a pia or a paid solution around them. Keeping the platform from making money by blocking ads in the long run isn’t going to work.

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Tostecles@reddit

>When your show started, you were relatively unmolested and allowed to just enjoy it. You've clearly never watched Friends with my uncle

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Deadonstick@reddit

Also worth mentioning, early YouTube was just a small banner ad to the right of your video. It wasn't until years later that video ads started appearing. Let's not pretend it's only YouTube doing this though. Most YouTubers also started getting increasingly predatory with in-video ads and other sponsored content.

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SaintCambria@reddit

I really think a large part of the "Golden Age of TV" revolution, or whatever you want to call it, was simply not formatting your show to be built around seven minute segments.

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ICantRemember33@reddit

the first point still exists in a lot of animes

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TheCapitalKing@reddit

The tv thing is super accurate and it makes it super annoying when the streaming services miss time the add breaks. Like there’s a beat where the add is supposed to start then a beat for when the show is supposed to start back up and then they put the ad right after it was supposed to start back up

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SpaceBug176@reddit

Or just use an adblock. That works too.

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RadioRoosterTony@reddit

Big businesses will cut spending on every possible penny. If the ads weren't working, they would stop doing it.

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LoquaciousEwok@reddit

They don’t know for sure if they do work, they’re afraid that if they stop aggressively marketing their product the sales will go down

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billiardwolf@reddit

So you think Pepsi spends billions on advertising based on fear? Or is it more likely that it works?

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jerk_chicken_warrior@reddit

for a product like pepsi advertising definitely makes sense, an advert could make you ‘crave’ the product, and view it as more respectable. but there are some advert campaigns for some products that are genuinely just irritating and makes you wonder how it could sell a single product. and sometimes products fail, even with a lot spent on marketing. some adverts and advertisement campaigns will genuinely just be a waste of money.

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Lonely_Reality@reddit

To assume these companies are spending multiple billions of dollars on advertising, just because "idk man fuck it" is lowkey hilarious

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ShoutOfHellas@reddit

Also, companies these days are made of 10% actually creating value and 90% marketing it. The sales and marketing employees need a reason to be there you know?

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Wetbug75@reddit

This makes me think about how protesters annoy people. It's all about raising awareness.

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Teln0@reddit

Has anon ever bought from a brand he never heard of? How often does that happen? Ads are there to create familiarity with the brand before you even buy the product. In a month you'll remember the brand but won't remember you remember it from this one annoying ad

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Dummyblyat@reddit

Well, it did work and on far more people than expected. For example, my sister ended up downloading a mobile game just because she kept seeing its ads. A lot of people are probably the same; even if they end up disliking the product, the advertising alone is enough to make them try it.

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616659@reddit

Ad blockers, ever heard about them?

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sorryiamnotoriginal@reddit

The amount of people that just deal with ads is shocking to me but I guess it allows me to block them and doesn't incentivize corpos to make it harder to block them.

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tacozombie741@reddit

when the free market died and an individual consumer's buying power began to mean nothing as monopolies used their networks within other power structures to push laws that would negatively impact small businesses and only benefit bloated megacorporations. as each of these megacorporations became effectively gods to the rest of the world, working together to secure their profit margins, competition stopped being about providing the best goods/services to the public and instead became how much can we make our product shittier and more annoying before it becomes wholly intolerable to our customerbase in order to maximize profits. hope this helps.

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netspherecyborg@reddit

On instagram i usually lie in the ad comments how shit their product is and that i have been scammed by them. You annoy me, i annoy you.

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BackPain4Life@reddit

It really bugs me that you can pay a subscription, but movies specific to that streaming service can still be interrupted by ads. After paying for the subscription. In the middle of a movie. Boooo

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Filter55@reddit

I have a psychotic fucking hatred for specific jingles now.

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Dopecombatweasel@reddit

took me like 20 years to realize u can just refresh the webpage for youtube ads lol.

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Rational_Defiance@reddit

Or use an adblocker...

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Dopecombatweasel@reddit

That comes with its own set of problems lol

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firstgenipadmini@reddit

There was a time when ads were just still pictures on the far sides of the main content. Or if we want to go modern, there was a time when ads would pop up under a YouTube video without interrupting it

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AaronsAaAardvarks@reddit

Yeah these billions of dollars are just being thrown away because they never thought to go to 4chan and ask if it's a good idea

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ErenKruger711@reddit

Opportunity to place an ad here missed

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childroid@reddit

>The business enterprise has two–and only two–basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs. The underlying tech and value proposition of advertising is ass, but ads and advertising don't have to be that way. I should be able to charge a CPM if my data is being used to target me.

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000187346@reddit

Honestly, I like ads cause it can be a good way to find products I like.🥲

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PikachuOfme_irl@reddit

Capitalists discovered that if they are absolute dickheads they don't need to give a fuck about how consumers feel about their product and now we're paying the price (the ever steeper subscription price)

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YoueyyV@reddit

Idk, Youtube premium says I've watched 5,300 hours of ad-free videos and listened to 2,100 hours of ad-free music so I'm happy with paying that to not be forced to sit through ads.

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Rational_Defiance@reddit

Or just save yourself the money and use an adblocker.

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Rational_Defiance@reddit

Firefox Browser + Ublock Origin. Brave Browser if you're on iOS.

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AlabamaHotcakes@reddit

I mean this is literally what Radio and then TV did for generations.

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JeanRalfio@reddit

People like Anon will just call you a bootlicker if you explain media funding comes from ads.

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project571@reddit

They also don't want to pay any kind of fee for accessing media. They want someone else to foot the bill. So much these days involves people wanting others to make something and provide it without paying a dime or giving anything in return.

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MeGustaMiSFW@reddit

When the market is so stagnant, when competition is pretty much dead, when monopolies form, they don’t need to care if you’re annoyed. You’ll pay if you want the annoyances to stop. If you can’t pay? Fuck you.

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GroGroudonDu31@reddit

Ok but we also live in a world when you can say fuck you back with adblockers and things like that for free

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MeGustaMiSFW@reddit

Is there an adblocker that will stop sponsored posts/comments on Reddit? Or those annoying snap-ads? Asking for myself. Fucking hate those.

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MusiX33@reddit

I'm not aware of any but similarly, I know there's an extension that will skip over sponsored segments on YouTube videos. I'm sure there's something for sponsored content on Reddit or similar.

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GroGroudonDu31@reddit

I dont really remember how i did it but i know it has to do with something called revanced manager so you can google it

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jjkm7@reddit

They might be getting me subconsciously but I am really good at mentally tuning out ads I just stare at the clock until I can click the skip button

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XDracam@reddit

OP is getting it wrong. You get a version that's free with ads so that you don't need to pay a subscription. But you can also just pay that subscription instead of you don't want to be the product. This is of course absolutely stupid for many services, like "access to a game that isn't live service"

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BirdyWeezer@reddit

Ads are not supposed to make you buy a product they are supposed to make you know a product so when you ever think about buying a product you will go for them since somewhere deep in your brain you will forever remember the product. Its literally brainwashing.

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Isotheis@reddit

It works on nearly everyone, but actually has the opposite effect on some people, mostly autistic people. Because some people might hate being interrupted so much, or hate the concept of ads altogether, they might simply "blacklist" the product, and specifically refuse to buy it even if it's all that's left in the store. I have reasons to believe the kind of person who makes these posts on 4chan might be one of these.

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snifywhisper@reddit

You think a 4chan user might be autistic.

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FrankieMLG@reddit

Your first sentence is wrong. There are two schools of marketing - brand marketing and direct response. Brand marketing is supposed to make you know a product yadda yadda (what you said). Direct response IS supposed to make you buy the product after seeing the ad.

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TrungusMcTungus@reddit

But what about the products so ingrained in the public that it’s impossible to forget? Why am I still getting Coca Cola ads? It’s the most basic, classic, well known cola. Why do they need to advertise. Everybody knows Coke.

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Eastonator12@reddit

To remind you to get coke instead of the off brand generic cola or god forbid Pepsi

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ApplicationCalm649@reddit

God forbid companies make money off their products.

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ProfessorGimpsuit@reddit

Now they're just pissed at the people who use the service for free, so they're trying to annoy them into paying to use it. Works pretty well on the people who don't know how to block ads

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WampMichal7@reddit

Mimes.

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Elyvagar@reddit

I have used adblockers for many many years now. It surprises me how many people still don't even know they exist yet. And people really do buy stuff that is advertised quite frequently. They have been doing these ads for decades now. If they didn't work they wouldn't do it.

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The_Gunboat_Diplomat@reddit

I usually start boycotting anyone that gives me an ad

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Thedran@reddit

Literally the entirety of radio and TV has been ad sponsored in some way. Like the anger for having to watch an ad to get free content or pay 10 dollars to not is just so confusing for me cause just to watch tv my parents were spending 95 a month on a plan and 25 a month for satellite rental on TV and we STILL had to watch ads. The internet generation is so crazy entitled it’s nuts to me. Like yeah we pirated shit all the time because we were broke kids but we never acted like we somehow had a right to someone else’s content no matter how shitty it was, but knew we were being dicks and getting away with it. No there is like 2 posts a day on YouTube Reddit complaining that their Adblock isn’t working anymore and they have to watch a midroll ad? First world ass problems in a nutshell.

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philouza_stein@reddit

This is why voting with your wallet never works. People don't have any values or loyalty when no one is looking.

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breakfasteveryday@reddit

I mean I hate ads too but when has being free ever been a suitable business practice? Also most print media and TV ran on ads for most of the 20th century.

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Phenzo2198@reddit

If they are a game ad, the ad is always more fun than the game.

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_Etri_@reddit

If they are still doing it that means it somehow fucking works

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dodobal@reddit

Because its not about the ad being attractive. Its when you eventually need the product you will remember the brand but not the negative emotions you felt when you’ve seen it

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Zhaerden@reddit

My memory of the Coca-Cola Columbian Death Squads and their hogging of local indigenous water sources the moment I see Polar Bears and Santa Claus:

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LordMarcusrax@reddit

When the fuck am I going to need clash of clans or another shitty match 3 game?

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Lgueuzzar@reddit

It's not to make you want to use the product, because, and that may come as a shock... YOU ARE ALREADY USING THE DAMN PRODUCT ! The company's business model is ad revenue, and also offers a subscription for people who don't want the ads but still want the service

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GreenRiot@reddit

Most cases you'll pay for a sub and still get them as a "honest mistake, pinky promisse" like YT premium. Either charge me, or show ads, any platform tries to do both I'm torrenting.

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Fleedjitsu@reddit

A lot of it is meant to introduce you to the product subconsciously. Even if you don't immediately sprint out the door and go buy it, you'll have the product in the back of your mind. When you're at the store doing a general shop, or considering multiple brands for a specific purchase, you'll be more likely to go for the "familiar" ones.

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f3nix9510@reddit

When a service is basically a monopoly (Youtube) It works.

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foxferreira64@reddit

Ads quite literally DON'T advertise anymore. It's a strategy to make you buy premium subscriptions. Jokes on them, I'm using adblockers until the end of time!

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throwawayforlikeaday@reddit

What is it this? Are we in 2007? Why are ads still a topic of conversation?

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magnidwarf1900@reddit

I mean absolutely everyone doing it since internet was a thing so my guess is that it worked?

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Fun-Low5986@reddit

But wouldn't it be fucking hilarious if these big exec types built up an artificial bubble of companies buying from advertisers, advertisers buying space to put up ads, and vast swathes of the internet relying on those ads, and none of it makes a noticeable difference? They just keep supporting the cycle because at this point they can profit in a variety of ways without really trying.

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GreatPlainsAquarist@reddit

Protesting in most cases these days operates on the same premise as advertising, it seems.

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finicky88@reddit

Resistance to normal advertising mechanics is an autism trait btw

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tea_snob10@reddit

>When has being annoying been a suitable business practice? Literally always, Anon, especially when it comes to the effectiveness of ads.

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WoolooOfWallStreet@reddit

Now you pay subscriptions and STILL get ads

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the12ftdwarf@reddit

I actively avoid any product that has invasive advertising

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Xx_Venom_Fox_xX@reddit

Even if an ad annoys you, it sticks in your head and you remember the product.

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Unworthy_Saint@reddit

No no by all means keep watching them so it's less likely they will care about my adblockers.

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BattleGrown@reddit

Anon thinks people make conscious purchasing decisions. They don't.

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Kaikeno@reddit

Anon needs an adblocker

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mrlunes@reddit

Many ads have made me want to never buy that product ever.

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DeadSuperHero@reddit

This is why I will never ever pay for YouTube Premium. You broke your site and apps on purpose just to sell functionality back to me. That doesn't deserve to be rewarded.

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Dynablade_Savior@reddit

\> In what world Boomer world

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BaxElBox@reddit

Idk why on the internet I can't stand them but I don't mind them particularly on TV . Doesn't help I literally get ADS ON MY FUCKING PDF READER ON MOBILE FOR CANDY CRUSH. OR 3 MOTHERFUCKING ADS ON ANY GAME . BUT THATS NOT AS BAD AS GETTING A 16 MINUTE AD GLAZING SAUDI ARABIA. https://preview.redd.it/qyiglbyh6hbf1.jpeg?width=950&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c74024b27e4c190d3c5f89e79b632db98f56d657 Still better then Zionist ads my friends across the west get . Esp in Australia and america for some reason

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HungarianNoble@reddit

If you dont need internet for the stuff you are doing you can put your phone in airplane mode and all ads will go away

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hotwheelearl@reddit

I can forgive ads on free games because that’s the only reason they’re free. Also depending on the game just turn off your data and WiFi connection and you’re all set

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throwtheclownaway20@reddit

That's literally how American capitalism has always worked, sadly

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No-Boysenberry-6685@reddit

not everyone is like us

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FHFH913@reddit

Its the exposure, most likely you are not interested in the first place, but if something you really liked but didn't know it existed you will watch the ad to learn more

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Key-Landscape-9278@reddit

Hulu legit has the worst ad system ever

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Consistent-Throat130@reddit

Going on 4chinz without even knowing how to adblock. Anon's machine is gonna be as gross and crusty digitally, as it is in the physical realm.

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