Why do you hate ads?

[Koruu]

I find ads to be a waste of my time, and personally insulting. I didn't ask for an advertisement to be shown to me. I was not searching for your product. I do not need your product, and I do not want to watch a quirky video telling me why I should buy your product. By forcing me to engage and watch your ad, you just ensure I hate your product and your company, and I will never see my money.

If I could have one petty wish, it would be for billboards to be made illegal across the nation, similar to how Hawaii and Vermont do. They are ugly, they ruin vistas, and again, they're insulting.

Also for my personal PSA: if you're on Android, for the love of God install YouTube Revanced. YouTube is the absolute worst platform when it comes to advertising. The fact I never have to give a second of my attention to any of these companies helps me sleep soundly at night.

 

[We Are The Witches]

Spoiler: Meme answer

• They're annoying
• They're a waste of time
• They're scams
• They're malware
• They're boring
• They're intrusive
• They're manipulative
• They make everything cluttered
• They make my hardware slow
• They don't have anything I want
• They make me the product
• They make money
• They're full of niggers & faggots
• They're used to stalk you

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They're completely useless crap to me, waste of my time, I'd rather look at the ceiling any day of the week. They mostly suck, they're not original, their product is almost always an exaggeration in the ad compared to the real product anyways, and whatever songs/music they use is the most annoying thing they could have chosen. But they try to do this on purpose, make a shitty catchy song so that you think of them, I know how it goes, and it tells you about what kind of people they are.

Of course they ruin the experience of watching something, specially if frequently, who would want that nonsense? They serve no purpose other than to maybe make corporations more money, but not from me since I won't buy it, so again, it's just literally wasting my time.

I practically have not watched an ad in years, Brave still works fine, and I think that otherwise, the experience would have been cancerous and reminiscing of the old days when I had a TV, when they broadcasted the worst things, filled with ads, the dark ages.

I also know that a lot of people in marketing are trash, so it's all bad, there's not a single positive thing about it. Nothing!

 

[Preacher ✝]

I voted manipulative because, IMO, it encapsulates a lot of the other options and speaks to the core of what's wrong with most forms of advertising.

Sometimes I wonder if I wouldn't mind them so much if they were just honest, straightforward, and brief. I am not unsympathetic to the practical need for advertising, that is if you own a business then you need a means of making the public aware of it. Since competition is part of business you also need to be able to tell the public why they should choose your business over your competitors business. This all makes sense to me, and I'd like to hope it makes sense to most people that aren't retards. Furthermore it also makes sense that the practice of advertising would result in an arms race for the attention of the public. It's unfair to exclusively blame advertisers when the niggercattle nature of a depressing percentage of the public makes them susceptible to shitty advertising practices.

Considering these things I believe the solution to advertising is better public education on the manipulative nature of advertising. For example consider the use of language like 'gourmet' in food products. To most people the word gourmet more or less translates to quality, but when used in advertising it has no legal meaning. Companies can and do slap that word on anything to trick people into thinking its better than it really is. While we could try and solve this through regulation and legislation, that would only increase the power of the nanny state and perpetuate the ongoing arms race. The only way to eliminate it is to make it so the majority of consumers recognize it for what it is and shun it as a result. By inverting the intended results of an advertising practice it becomes no longer viable and thus is not used.

That said I think part of me will always hate advertising no matter how honest or unobtrusive it tries to be. I grew up with an affinity for visual media in an age before DVR or online piracy. Having to endure commercials and reruns in the hopes of seeing something new, all the while beholden to the programming schedule. It was a torturous experience and its why I will never apologize for pirating or using adblock, and why I have a deep appreciation for being able to watch whatever I want, whenever I want, in whatever order I want. I don't even own a TV anymore.

 

[BiggestKai]

Who could possibly dislike ads?

 

[Aquilus]

I don't hate ads as a concept but it everywhere and ruins everything its obstructive ruins video and tv pacing and even basic immersion. I want to listen to Chopin not going to New Jersey.

 

[dick brain]

For the same reason I didn't read this thread: waste of time and the perceptual equivalent of junk food.

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

'Cause half of it is just anti white waste mixing propaganda the other half is legitimate lies and omissions and the small amount of ads of things that I've actually bought is maybe one or two.
Just tell me what your product does and where I can find it and that's it

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

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.

They put up with it because getting adblock is too herculean of an ask for them to add it to their browser. I've actually had people scoff at me as I walked them through the steps of getting it and quit halfway through.

 

[IronJuche_Brigade]

They make fast food look good

 

[skykiii]

I hate aids because I already have enough issues without my autoimmune system being compromised by buttsex...

Oh, you said ads! Okay.

It really does come down to just "annoying" tho.

I think that on the internet in particular there's an extra hassle because many of us remember a time when ads weren't a thing. Like on Youtube. It sucks to remember a time when you just clicked the video and it loaded, and now getting that back is either a paid service or else something you have to install extensions for.

I was a lot more fine with commercials on TV back in the day. At least some of those were entertaining in their own right, and at least they served as "bathroom break" time in an age where you could not just skip through things.

 

[Myron]

The goal is to sell to you what you don't want "sell me this pen" is trite for a reason.