Why do you hate ads?

[Moths]

Modern ads are made to manipulate you emotionally to buy product because psychology said it was effective. Ads arent fun or informative anymore and I support total advertiser death since like a cancer they insist on shoving advertisements fucking everywhere.

Yesterday it was billboards and signs. Today its every single digital display down to the petrol pump and the center console of your fucking car. For what purpose? To interrupt whatever im doing to tell me to drink a coke?! I have no idea how anyone can even listen to the radio in the morning with the constant fucking adrolls between songs and shit.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Modern ads are made to manipulate you emotionally to buy product because psychology said it was effective. Ads arent fun or informative anymore and I support total advertiser death since like a cancer they insist on shoving advertisements fucking everywhere.

Yesterday it was billboards and signs. Today its every single digital display down to the petrol pump and the center console of your fucking car. For what purpose? To interrupt whatever im doing to tell me to drink a coke?! I have no idea how anyone can even listen to the radio in the morning with the constant fucking adrolls between songs and shit.

I agree, advertiser bans would be good. It should only exist as an opt-in system, if you want ads you can receive them (maybe you want to keep up on one particular subject, like food or medicine, so you consent to it popping up wherever you choose).

Similarly, I remember Gizmondo (a game console) having a cheaper version that came with ads, basically you get a discount for subjecting yourself to them. These are the only kinds of ways I think they should be permitted.

 

[Town Drunk]

Ads are the golden goose of revenue chasers, and as others have revealed they don't pay shit. I can't count how many content creators i've watched who tell you to use ad blocker. One million views on a YT video gets them like 50 bucks. They make their money from bits/superchats/membership/patreon. FFS Twitch and YT will block ads if you give them money.

Internet ads and TV ads are a totally diffrent animal. TV ads are catered to to the target demo and the time slot. This is the old model that companies have held on to. They were also more efffective. Do you like this show? Well, it is brought to you by Winston ciggarettes, buy this brand if you want to support the show.

Internet ads (short of porn sites) are a cluster fuck. The same ad three times in a row, what a good use of money. Also, since they have no control over where they are aired you get no target demographic. So you get ads for products you have no intrest in.

In addition, since the ad break wasn't planned, having a video cut mid sentence to watch an ad for something you have no intrest in, pisses you off. Now you hate that product. It's reverse anchoring. Instead of watching an exciting basketball game and seeing the Tide logo, thus making your brain associate excitement with Tide. Now I'm angry you interupted my fun, and when I see you my brain gets angry, because it remembers how mad I was when you did that.

TLDR: Ads are an old business model, don't work, and everyone hates them, you are better off making good content and getting supported by people paying you directly.

 

[gobbles]

I like ads (or at minimum tolerate them). They tell me about stuff. Also, I have good taste, so the objects or clothes are usually beautiful.

I can’t remember the last time I spent money because of an ad, but they certainly keep the brands I like at the top of my head.

I’m more bitter about spon-con and the vapid consumerism endorsed by social media than I am by advertisements.

 

[Male Idiot]

Modern adds are just bad. They aren't targeted or badly targeted, most are the most slop drivel ever produced and are displayed ad-hoc over everything.

They aren't informative, waste your time, and aren't fun to watch. They are just uninteresting.

How hard would it be to make ads reflect the video for example:

-You watch a video on Thailand. Ads selected for thai tours and thai restaurants in your IP vicinity.

-You are a kid called Timmy. Ad goes to GIJOE and shows off Sergeant Shotgun action figure. He can wave his arms, you can put a headband on his head, and a grenade in his free arm.

-You google old trains, you get an ad about the book Best Trains by A. Autist.

Ads nowdays also never ever show the product informatively.

The least offensive and most on point one is a black dude showing his muscles and saying OLD SPICE. It shows the product clear and up front.

A stupid one was 7days which is some type of premade bakery shit. Which pops up at the end, before that it is just the general diverse happy NYC crowd hanging out.
If you put in a T-shirt, a skateboard, or a local hipster park segment at the end, the ad would be the same.

It is just Stonetoss's good old -sell burgers?-

Japanese ads are at least wacky and fun to catch your attention. Western ads catch it by simply being 50% louder.

If you want to see a good ad and don't want to timetravel back 20 years, see Flashgitz.

 

[Positron]

I don't mind ads as long as they simply present the info about the product. But most ads (including TV ads and print ads) are attention-seeking non sequiturs, puns that misdirect, and people making soyfaces.

 

[Nitro!]

Advertisements are theft.

When you turn on the TV, browse the Internet, listen to the radio, you are spending money. The electricity that runs your appliances, the gas that makes your car go, you have to earn it. What percentage of your paycheck is allotted to entertainment, transport, utilities? Some non-trivial percent, no doubt, but check that balance sheet again. What percentage is allotted to "consuming advertisements"? A whole lot of ZERO. But somehow, some way, your resources are being taken by advertisers, and not because you consented to it.

Put it another way. If you have the misfortune to be around someone who still pays for cable TV you will be assaulted every six minutes by a specifically engineered sequence of advertisements intended to overload and monopolize your visual and audio processing pathways. Mastered loud so the lines sound like they're being played inside your own head. Massive marketing slogans plastered in text on screen so you can't even ignore them on mute. You can't even get away from them if you close your wallet; modern advertisements rob you of your cognition while they are present. And all the while the only thing you requested, and PAID FOR, is the entertainment that has another few seconds sliced out of it every year so an advertiser can snort another line.

Advertisements have negative value. They exist to steal as much of your resources as possible and the ad men are robbers that want everything you have.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

Because they showing me information i never asked for. which is funny since i know they using the algorithm to check my search history to try and market things towards my interests but they fail everytime.

 

[DrunkenLemon]

As a kid I would change the channel, or turn off the TV and do something else, mostly because they put ear-worm jingles into your head.
I already know what I need or want, I do not need spammy banners, or advertisements that have a timer on them, they're interrupting what I'm watching, they're intrusive.

You know those Christmas magazines that your parents hand out, and you would circle around the toys you wanted as a kid? I think if modern advertisers were like that instead, I wouldn't mind them existing. For example you go to a specific TV/Youtube channel, where they display ads for old people, or children. But the thing is you would have to seek it out yourself.
Amazon is a modern day Christmas Magazine essentially, you purposely seek out that website on your own when you need to grab something. Sure, that's fine and dandy.

But if I got an Amazon ad on a video, I do not want to use it anymore, it's overstepping. I already know it exists, like why the fuck do I need to see a Mc Donalds ad? Or Car insurance ads? Everyone already knows they exist.

My time is so valuable to me, but here I am posting on the autism forums.
Complete & Total Advertiser Death.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I'd go with annoying of the most of them. A good ad will at least be fun to listen to, but modern ads are at best incredibly generic or
LOOK AT HOW WE LOVE TRAANNIES, ALSO WOMEN ARE BETTER THAN MEN, DON'T YOU LOVE THE OBNOXIOUS JINGLE!?

 

[Mike Matei's Penis]

They are always far too loud compared to whatever I wanted to watch.

 

[DrunkenLemon]

I'd go with annoying of the most of them. A good ad will at least be fun to listen to, but modern ads are at best incredibly generic or
LOOK AT HOW WE LOVE TRAANNIES, ALSO WOMEN ARE BETTER THAN MEN, DON'T YOU LOVE THE OBNOXIOUS JINGLE!?

CALL J.G WENTWORTH 877 TRANS NOW.

 

[Rei is Shit.]

They're UGLY

 

[Divine Power]

They are cringe and useless

 

[Shart Attack]

Let's imagine an average day for an average American normie.

You wake up. You want to check the weather forecast or check the morning news, so you:
1. Check the newspaper, if you're old. Every newspaper in the country is 90% ads now.
2. Check the Weather Channel. Banner ads around the screen and commercials every 8 minutes.
3. Check an app like Accuweather, which will shove ads in your face.

You drive to work. You put on the radio and get ads between every song. You see billboards everywhere. You stop for gas, and on top of the usual Montain Dew ads all over the building, there are now screens on the pumps that blare advertising at you while you fill up.

You get to work. If you have a blue-collar job, your coworkers might have a radio on in the background on the shop floor -- ads all day. If you have an office job, you probably have to use the internet for some of your job tasks. If your IT department is particularly incompetent or strict, they'll deny you the administrator rights you need to stop Microsoft from shoving ads at you in the fucking taskbar. They'll probably also make you use Chrome and prevent you from installing any decent ad-blocking software.

You drive home. More billboards, more radio ads. After dinner, you want to unwind with some form of entertainment. If you're a normie, you watch YouTube, which will show you ads. On top of the insert ads, every YouTube video will stop for a solid minute so the host can shill NordVPN or Honey or what the hell ever. TV will show you ads. Netflix will show you ads. If you want to watch a football game, 75% of the broadcast airtime is spent on advertising. Even in the rare event something is happening on the field, the commentators are advertising to you as Jamarkus Da'Quavion takes the ball through the Bud Light red zone for an Allstate touchdown in what will surely be the Liberty Mutual play of the game, brought to you by Gillette. If you watch baseball, you see ads on every square inch of the ballpark from every camera angle. If you watch NASCAR, every car is covered in ads. If you listen to a podcast, Spotify or iTunes will inject ads before and after every episode.

Some of you might be getting mad because I'm not mentioning specific ways tech-savvy people can avoid a lot of these ads, instead of looking at the bigger picture of ads being so fucking inescapable. Install uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock! Pay for Spotify premium! Pay for the ad-free version of the weather app! Wear headphones at work! And it's true, you can use some magic cocktail of ad-blockers to avoid a lot of the ads and shilling online. You can set a VPN to a country where it's illegal for Spotify/Apple/Whatever to inject ads into a podcast. You can pay money for ad-free versions of your preferred weather app, or use a NOAA weather radio like an insane person. If you're diligent about hardening your devices against advertising, and you're willing to pay money for ad-free versions of otherwise free services, and you adopt habits specifically to avoid ads, and you avoid mass media entertainment, you can avoid some -- not all -- advertisements. Even if you, personally, manage to avoid most advertising, it's still absolutely fucking everywhere. It's nightmarishly pervasive.

That's not even getting into the disgusting, manipulative, propagandistic nature of almost all modern advertising.

 

[Honored guest]

They were bad before, but now with AI I'm seeing multiple AI scam ads all over boomerbook and twitter. Fuck those niggers in charge of those websites for taking money to broadcast scams.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

I hate ads on streaming services when they're jammed in in a way that doesn't make sense.

Like not in the old days with fade out/fade in parts of the show made for ad breaks, but when it immediately jumps from program you were watching to some kind of ad.

 

[Smashed & Slamed]

Adds waste my time. Only add that could somewhat work is an add making me aware of a product. But even that doesn't make me want to buy it, just gets filed in my brain as a good/service I now know off. The rest of adds feel like an insult almost. They are for products I know of, so I already formed an opinion on and no marketing will make me change that opinion.
But that's the best case scenario of something like a billboard or anything less intrusive. Computer adds are pure unbridled AIDS. They are all scams or in the case of jewtube some retard trying to promote his 20 view channel by paying jewtube to make people watch them. Best case scenario for a add on a machine is it's in a foreign language so I can easily tune it out.

 

[The Amazing Mongrel]

Surprised the stalking answer doesn't have more votes. The amount of cookies, tracking, "analytics," and such are nightmarish. I don't even understand half of it, but I can at least comprehend it's intrusive.

Let's imagine an average day for an average American normie.

I can attest to this in college classrooms. People scrolling on their shitty Windows laptops or Apple iSlop using Google Chrome with absolutely no blockers of any sort. The amount of ads that were onscreen at any given second was wild. I don't know how they stand it, I'm old enough to remember when it wasn't that way.

I've used Firefox for years with a slew of privacy plugins, and I don't listen to the radio or receive newspaper distribution. It's so rare for me to see/hear an ad I'm actually really annoyed when I do.

Total advertiser death.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Back in the 2000s, ads would even install malware on your computer, without even needing to ask for your permission to do so. That lead to a wave of fake anti-malware programs being hocked to sell to unsuspecting users, does anyone remember the infamous SpyAxe?