Comment on There's fucking ads in board games now
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The original broadcast version of A Charlie Brown Christmas special, a 20 minute rant against consumerism, had scenes like Snoopy crashing into a Coca-Cola Sign. Because advertisers paid to have their ads built into the show itself.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Thanks! What site do you use to clean the tracker off of links?
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
You shouldn’t need a site. If you look closely at the original link you posted, it’s usually demarked by either a & symbol or a ? symbol, both the symbols and all text that comes after them are extraneous data.
For example, a youtube link where you put a timestamp so it always starts at a specific time would be youtu.be/aeyLZHaGj3s&t=30s
In this example, I appended “&t=30s” to the end of the link, which starts me at that time stamp.
So what you need to look out for are special characters, anything after those tend to be tracking data. (Not always, but mostly)
So find a special character, and remove that character and everything that comes after it and you’ll have a clean link.
NielsBohron@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I think if you get the video from Duck Duck Go, you can copy the link without the tracker. Plus, I think Firefox gives you option to “copy link without site tracking” from most search results
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
NielsBohron@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I was just thinking about this last weekend when I heard a Run The Jewels beat on a TurboTax ad during an NFL game.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Isn’t Killer Mike one of those “black capitalism can save us” type guys anyway?
NielsBohron@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Maybe? I don’t know much about his personality or politics, but I would have said a lot of RTJ songs are fairly strongly anti-capitalist (“Ju$t,” “Report to Shareholders,” etc.). But maybe that’s just me projecting my own anti-capitalist beliefs on their lyrics.
Yeah, as my politics get more progressive/radical, it’s gotten to the point where I either have to listen to stuff that’s almost explicitly apolitical (mostly stoner/doom metal songs about death in battle, wizards, and weed work pretty well) or else I actively avoid reading about the artists so I can pretend they’re more progressive than they are.
GraniteM@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I work at a used book store. Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto is a great seller, one of the best selling titles we ever get in, in fact. As a result, we keep raising the resale price on the thing each time a new one comes in, and it keeps selling. I’ve never had to mark down a Communist Manifesto for sitting on the shelf for too long. It’s a textbook example of supply and demand in action… and I think that Karl would kind of hate that.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Okay but what about the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith? I doubt its comparable but id assume ya guys move some copies entirely because of EU4.
GraniteM@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Adam Smith does pretty well. I’d say it’s Marxism, mushroom guides, and beekeeping that remain consistently at the top of the rankings. Then you’ve got whatever fiction is currently hot. For a while there it was Where the Crawdads Sing or Demon Copperhead. Sarah J. Maas is currently enjoying an extended streak of very strong sales. The Twilight series went through a bit of a low ebb for a while there but for some reason it’s been selling quite well again lately. Harry Potter used to be a rock solid seller, but one can see that J. K.'s attempts to alienate her fan base have been at least partially successful. It’s interesting to see the trends develop over time.