That ad spot just paid off in that you’re sharing it with your community, though. I’d never heard of shopify until now.
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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
I wasn’t “ready to start up my business” anyway, but if I ever am, you can bet your bottom that I still won’t have anything to do with fucking Shopify! 🖕🏼🤬🖕🏼
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
Yeah, because who doesn’t dream of such wonderful word of mouth as being vilified on a thread about hating ads on an open source forum where most users actively oppose corporations? 🙄
I’d never heard of shopify until now.
I’d apologize for ruining your streak of good luck, but based on the glibly condescending and confidently wrong first part of your comment, it sounds like you deserve shopify ads 🤷🏻
Tja@programming.dev 15 hours ago
Being vilified for “annoying ads” doesn’t tell me anything negative about the product or the company, just that someone on the internet whines about a minor inconvenience. And if I needed something similar I would check them out.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
glibly condescending and confidently wrong
Advertisers do want people exactly like you - people for whom their ads stick in the mind, and who will go around telling other people about their product. You might oppose them, as do most people here - but if any person reading this doesn’t hold the same lack of regard as you, or are put off by your behavior here, you’re actively giving them attention that results in a net positive.
Advertising is little more than corporate propaganda - and as the wise cat says, you’re not immune to propaganda.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
Advertisers do want people exactly like you
I promise you they don’t.
who will go around telling other people about their product
That’s not what I’m doing and you’d have known that if you paid attention to context rather than automatically apply your generalizations about ad effectiveness where they don’t apply.
You even repeated part of their copy for us, so now we know generally what service they provide
Except the “copy” does NOT in fact disclose that. I’m not gonna (in your mind) prove you right by telling you what they do, but one of the many things they DON’T do is helping people start a business.
if any person reading this doesn’t hold the same lack of regard for corporate interests as you
What kind of contrarian idiot would read this far down a thread specifically about hating ads for product recommendations? Other than yourself, of course.
Advertising is ~little more than~ corporate propaganda
Fixed it for you
you are not immune to propaganda.
Nobody inherently is, but that doesn’t mean that ALL propaganda works on ALL people.
The world isn’t a binary like that.
hansolo@lemmy.today 20 hours ago
When I download podcasts I turn a VPN on my phone to get ads in a language I don’t understand.
But fuck, there was a while where it was Swedish Chef style “vendi vundi vundi vu Shopify vendi vu” 3 times in a row every ad insert. Especially for NL.
So I started doing Ireland now because there least offensive accent to hear, and half the ads are for government services.