3 ms·

My unpopular opinion: I would rather see content disappear than ever see an ad of any kind. I used to be tolerant of ads but I'm never going back, ads of any ki

My unpopular opinion: I would rather see content disappear than ever see an ad of any kind. I used to be tolerant of ads but I'm never going back, ads of any kind are repulsive. I even think that billboards on the highway should be banned, they're eyesores.

intotheabyss 6y ago
Ads have been around as long as human societies have been around. Just look at the murals of Pompeii for example, or the rock walls in modern day Syria with commercial advertisements. As long as humans have something that others want, there will be advertising.. unfortunately.
- nescioquid 6y ago
  I think it anachronistic to construe signs and graffito from the ancient world to be equivalent to modern advertisement, marketing, or public relations, which belong to the world Edward Bernays (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays) helped invent. It really is different in kind from the menu with prices someone painted on a wall around 79 CE.
gordaco 6y ago
You are not alone. I'm also like this. Ads are horrible both in concept and in execution; their existence causes all kind of troubling incentives (for example: all those discussions about youtube radicalising young people because their algorithm prioritises polarising content? Remove the incentive to increase engagement at all costs, which is caused first and foremost by advertising, and the problem it's gone); and the worse of it is that we know there are a lot of very smart people out there, with a good grasp of how a human mind works, whose job is to insert tricks into advertising to manipulate you (by the way, this is not just about dark patterns, which is another can of worms of its own, but about neuromarketing and similar concepts). And then there are astroturfing campaings, which by design are even more dishonest than standard advertising. I really, really despise advertising. It can't disappear soon enough. To make this comment a bit less ranty, I'd like to add something: some people believe that ads don't work on them. I very much disagree. Ads DO work. That's exactly why I don't want anywhere near me.
- potta_coffee 6y ago
  I agree. About your last point, I can feel how ads affect me emotionally now and that's why I find them repulsive. My household is a "no-ads" household and I don't allow my children to view ads.
dorgo 6y ago
My unpopular opinion: Show me ads and pay me for interating with them. You can even get all my data (income, recent purchases, hobbies, ...) preferably anonymised in some way. Let me rate ads and show the rating to everybody. If I buy the advertised product/service increase the public rating of the ad, otherwise decrease it. Optionally, adjust the price according to rating. The higher the rating the lower the payment for interaction with the ad. Let unpopular/unsuccessful ads/advertisers pay more for the same customer. Let me adjust the price and rating thresholds to exluce low priced / low quality ads. Keep track of my purchases to build my reputation among advertisers.

intotheabyss 6y ago

Ads have been around as long as human societies have been around. Just look at the murals of Pompeii for example, or the rock walls in modern day Syria with commercial advertisements. As long as humans have something that others want, there will be advertising.. unfortunately.

nescioquid 6y ago
I think it anachronistic to construe signs and graffito from the ancient world to be equivalent to modern advertisement, marketing, or public relations, which belong to the world Edward Bernays (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays) helped invent. It really is different in kind from the menu with prices someone painted on a wall around 79 CE.

gordaco 6y ago

You are not alone. I'm also like this. Ads are horrible both in concept and in execution; their existence causes all kind of troubling incentives (for example: all those discussions about youtube radicalising young people because their algorithm prioritises polarising content? Remove the incentive to increase engagement at all costs, which is caused first and foremost by advertising, and the problem it's gone); and the worse of it is that we know there are a lot of very smart people out there, with a good grasp of how a human mind works, whose job is to insert tricks into advertising to manipulate you (by the way, this is not just about dark patterns, which is another can of worms of its own, but about neuromarketing and similar concepts). And then there are astroturfing campaings, which by design are even more dishonest than standard advertising. I really, really despise advertising. It can't disappear soon enough. To make this comment a bit less ranty, I'd like to add something: some people believe that ads don't work on them. I very much disagree. Ads DO work. That's exactly why I don't want anywhere near me.

potta_coffee 6y ago
I agree. About your last point, I can feel how ads affect me emotionally now and that's why I find them repulsive. My household is a "no-ads" household and I don't allow my children to view ads.

dorgo 6y ago

My unpopular opinion: Show me ads and pay me for interating with them. You can even get all my data (income, recent purchases, hobbies, ...) preferably anonymised in some way. Let me rate ads and show the rating to everybody. If I buy the advertised product/service increase the public rating of the ad, otherwise decrease it. Optionally, adjust the price according to rating. The higher the rating the lower the payment for interaction with the ad. Let unpopular/unsuccessful ads/advertisers pay more for the same customer. Let me adjust the price and rating thresholds to exluce low priced / low quality ads. Keep track of my purchases to build my reputation among advertisers.