I agree with most of that, but I feel like we weren’t using the same Internet 15 years ago. There were still ample popups and popunders, many of which you couldn’t easily close (more than a few did the funny ‘you are an idiot’ trick of just open windows faster than you can close them to me). They were loud, both visually but also they would actually play sound in non-video pages (sometimes multiple at once). Most of them were either disgust or porn based (or the really funny meme of both at the same time). And there were so. Many. Viruses. I feel like advertisers have never been particularly respectful of the end user, and the main difference is that now they’re actively spying, where they maybe weren’t 20 years ago.
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SIGSEGV@sh.itjust.works 2 years agoNo, not everybody hates ads. Everybody hates today’s ads, because they’re literally as intrusive and annoying as the designers can make them. I didn’t have a problem with ads 15 years ago, but because I have to pay for my bandwidth, and because ads like to literally block what I’m reading with a giant, 100MB, unskippable video, I use an ad blocker.
scurry@lemmy.world 2 years ago
NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
Idk, 15 years ago I was watching cable and 1/3 of my time was spent subjected to ads on a paid service. I think I prefer them now lol
SIGSEGV@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
We’re talking internet here, bub.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Unskipable ads when I’m browsing my files on my phone, how fucking obnoxious can you possibly make them?
NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
Where did u experience this lol, Ive never heard of that
Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Xiaomi, that was the worst update ever
Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It’s a xiaomi, phone is great but the software bloat is horrible
Hardeehar@lemmy.world 2 years ago
What phone or service is this? Not in the states right?
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 2 years ago
Maybe install a different file browser, here’s one I think is nice
Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Yeah that’s what I ended up doing, but that never should have happen in the first place
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 2 years ago
I agree, needing to watch ads to view your own, local, personal files is insane