Submitted 1 year ago by Zanetaya@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
Wherever I go, I often see the sentiment “This website has ads, so it’s trash” pop up in conversations. And honestly I don’t quite get why. 90% of the internet has always had ads, you just scroll past them and mind your business. At least they’re personalized now so you can pick a topic you like instead of diapers and miscellanous spammy trash as there once were.
It’s the websites with ads that heat up my phone so much it hurts that are the problem.
There may have always been sites with ads, but they didn’t always track and profile you behind your back - that’s what’s wrong with online ads, not that there’s something wrong with advertising per se.
And if they’re personalised then that’s a whole level worse because that means that A: they’ve profiled you and B: they can now be much more effective at influencing you. Don’t buy the story that any of that is for your benefit.
I feel many people are so privileged on both sides of politics that they have nothing better to do than to create their own problems.
Wait until you learn that there aren’t just two sides in politics.
Even in European countries there are two dominant parties that work with others on their side of the aisle. In fact the concept of a left and right comes from France.
Polarization is universal in politics at the scales or democracy.
I used to be fine with a few ads here and there, but the ad industry has destroyed any tolerance I had for them with their bullshit. If you want my eyeballs so baldy, you have to carve them out of my cold, dead skull.
Perhaps the reasoning chances from person to person, but for me, it goes along the lines of this image posted, oddly enough, on a memes page:
https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/cbae2e12-4fe0-45c4-8657-f033da6eab20.png
Agreed. I've gotten sick of it and decided I'm not for sale.
lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee 1 year ago
For most people it isn’t the ads, it’s the way ads are implemented. They harvest insane amounts of data to track and identify you. Then the ads in social media are inserted deceptively, or you get popups that deliberately make it difficult to dismiss them, or you’re trying to read an article but there’s an ad between evwry sentence. Most people would be ok with small, non deceptive ads that didn’t require you to sogn away your entire life to target them to you, but most ads these days are not that.