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Having less exposure to advertising, given that I watch less advertising-interrupted television than ever and have had a pi-hole running for a good couple of ye

Having less exposure to advertising, given that I watch less advertising-interrupted television than ever and have had a pi-hole running for a good couple of years, when I am exposed to advertising I'm reminded of how incredibly bottom-feeding it is. I've said it before: Advertising is a psychological attack on human weakness. > I find it hard to separate the fraudsters from the engineers that enable them Paraphrasing because I can't find the original: "What does it say of humanity to have so many of the smartest minds in the world working on making advertising more effective" > this screed was therapeutic +1

eschaton 6y ago
Most advertising literally attempts to hack an audience’s brains, which everyone should instantly recognize as being black-hat.
- sitkack 6y ago
  At the same time, we have created super computers that run on expansion cards that are being used for that same black-hat activity. Currently measured in the 10s of teraflops of processing power.
bigiain 6y ago
“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.” –Jeff Hammerbacher
- kieckerjan 6y ago
  Some of these best minds are probably reading this right now, and keeping awfully quiet. :-)
  - Firehawke 6y ago
    Or hiding in plain sight in posts here.
- dralley 6y ago
  https://youtu.be/xRL2vVAa47I&t=13m20s https://youtu.be/xRL2vVAa47I&t=13m20s
Firehawke 6y ago
More and more I'm seeing a general public backlash against advertising. It's been so large and so prevalent that people find it irritating enough to avoid products that are getting heavy pushes. I've found myself having a visceral "stay the hell away from this product" reaction on occasion as well. My stance on web advertising has always been "go back to static, not in-my-face, non-animated, no audio, no javascript ads and I'll consider turning off my ad blocker." I'm absolutely not letting my computer get infected through the ad networks, which is a separate issue really.

eschaton 6y ago

Most advertising literally attempts to hack an audience’s brains, which everyone should instantly recognize as being black-hat.

sitkack 6y ago
At the same time, we have created super computers that run on expansion cards that are being used for that same black-hat activity. Currently measured in the 10s of teraflops of processing power.

bigiain 6y ago

“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.” –Jeff Hammerbacher

kieckerjan 6y ago
Some of these best minds are probably reading this right now, and keeping awfully quiet. :-)
- Firehawke 6y ago
  Or hiding in plain sight in posts here.
dralley 6y ago
https://youtu.be/xRL2vVAa47I&t=13m20s https://youtu.be/xRL2vVAa47I&t=13m20s

Firehawke 6y ago

More and more I'm seeing a general public backlash against advertising. It's been so large and so prevalent that people find it irritating enough to avoid products that are getting heavy pushes. I've found myself having a visceral "stay the hell away from this product" reaction on occasion as well. My stance on web advertising has always been "go back to static, not in-my-face, non-animated, no audio, no javascript ads and I'll consider turning off my ad blocker." I'm absolutely not letting my computer get infected through the ad networks, which is a separate issue really.