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I find this a bit entertaining especially hearing advertisers and executives occasionally vent on stuff like this. A huge portion of modern people especially the younger they are:

Don’t go outside
Don’t read billboards, bus wrap advertisements, bus stop advertisements, ignore advertisements in sporting arenas and uniforms, etc
Use adblockers online/ignore online advertisements
Mute the television when ads are on
Don’t have television subscriptions
Pay for streaming services at a level that removes ads
Watch like no advertising shows like award shows
only watches TV for the finals of a sporting league championship and when advertisements comes on mutes the TV or focuses on their friends
Don’t discuss advertisements with friends like people did in the past
Show up to the movies late to avoid advertisements
Generally have an anti-consumption/anti-advertisement attitude even if they are consumerist. Being advertised to is an annoyance enough to buy something else
Throw away mailers immediately without reading
Ignore people trying to advertise on the street/passing out flyers
Don’t answer the door
Don’t answer the phone
Generally has no idea when anything new is coming out and mostly exists in a social bubble
Practically no monoculture
Etc

Besides the not going outside and problems that can arise from being in a social bubble, it’s all good stuff to me. For decades advertisers and businesses have optimized everything for selling products and now people are so desensitized to it to not care. Like no one actually cares about times square takeover advertisements anymore. It’s not a big deal.

It’s actually incredibly hard to advertise media now. Advertisements have to manage to seem organic or come off as predatory. So in comes the influencers but no influencer is as influential and trusted as a prime time advertisement before social media/YouTube went mainstream with people children to elderly

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Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
You forgot

pirates a lot of media
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- FinalRemix@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  When you’re not allowed to own anything, piracy isn’t theft.
  
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  - Virtvirt588@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Piracy in general shouldn’t be equated to theft.
    
    You wouldnt download a car.
    
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    FinalRemix@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I already have, and printed several for my nephews.
    
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JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Don’t discuss advertisements with friends like people did in the past

This one is big and I never noticed it until a few years ago. My wife and I never got cable when we moved into our own place. One time my mother in law was talking to my wife about some commercial and my wife just said she hadn’t seen it. My mother in law got really weirdly upset or something, like my wife was trying to be condescending or something. But she was talking about it the same way people might talk about a funny skit from a show. It wasn’t until being away from it for years that I realized how odd it is.
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JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Yould think the ad companies would get the message…

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- FinalRemix@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Some of the most wildly out of touch professors and students I’ve shared space with were business peeps.
  
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- benjirenji@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Google bad record profits last quarter, so it can’t be that bad.
  
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- mghackerlady@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I think it’s more companies should question whether the advertisement they pay for is actually effective or if they’re just told it’s more effective
  
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- BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  They do, just interpretation is different with their smooth brains.
  
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Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
This is the way.

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jeffep@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Still feels crazy though how aware your forced to be about ads lurking in every corner. I check many of these boxes plus some others, use independent OSs, 3rd party apps etc. And still, although I hardly see any ads, they are so present just lurking under the surface.

Good example are sponsor comments in yt videos/podcasts. Some I can filter out with Sponsorblock, but the little video glitch reminds you every time that you have to stay safe. Podcast ads can easily be slipped with the fast forward button, but if you’re washing the dishes etc., sometimes you can’t react directly.

It’s really insane how ads are just everywhere these days.

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