I’m right there with you, but the OP mentions social media, and that’s all that shit is.
Our society has allowed the way many people keep in touch with one another to be via psychologically manipulative, attention harvesting, advertising machines.
krisevol@lemmus.org 1 day ago
What ads? All my services provide ad free services like Netflix, youtube, discover, Disney, ect, and my radio on my car is ad free, and my pc is ad free thanks to adblockers.
Where are you seeing ads?
Zink@programming.dev 21 hours ago
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Seriously.
In the 90s, tv shows had ad breaks every 10 minutes. Ad blockers for web browsers hadn’t been invented. The drive to work had ads after every two or three songs. You could buy physical media if you wanted to get tv and radio ad-free, but that severely limited your choices and was inconvenient.
Today, you can still watch broadcast tv and listen to the radio, and they’re still full of just as many ads. You can also still buy physical media. But now you also have the choice of reduced ads with low-tier streaming video services and free-tier pandora/spotify. And for a little more money, you can have completely ad-free tv and radio. And if you still see ads on the web, that’s some kind of masochistic personal choice, or you need to take a free “how use computer?” class at your local senior center.
The only time I ever see ads anymore is billboards.
TrollTrollrolllol@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Leela: Didn’t you have ads in the 20th century?
Fry: Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines and movies and at ball games, on buses and milk cartons and T-shirts and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No, sir-ee!
Bender: Quit squawking, flesh wad. Nobody’s forcing you to buy anything.