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I am generally getting overwhelmed with ads coming from every nook and cranny of life to the point that I don't even want to buy stuff anymore, for a lot of it

by mym1990 4y ago

I am generally getting overwhelmed with ads coming from every nook and cranny of life to the point that I don't even want to buy stuff anymore, for a lot of it its like: whats the point?

Semaphor 4y ago
Luckily, I mostly don’t see any ads. Only for work, and on Amazon pretty much. Some more as product placement and in the physical world, but not a ton.
- Moru 4y ago
  I love the new ad displays in the local shopping mall. They use LCD screens rotated 90 degrees and my sunglases are just the wrong filter angle so they become nice black displays for me. Physical adblocker :-)
  - Ensorceled 4y ago
    My wife commented on how shitty some ambulance chaser ad was and all I could see was a black display. Now I want a law that requires all billboards and other such ads to be properly polarized so they can be blocked :-)
Anon4Now 4y ago
If you use Chrome, then switch to another browser that allows full adblocker functionality. I use Firefox with UBlock Origin and hardly see any ads.
- input_sh 4y ago
  Sponsored segments on YouTube. Billboards. Sponsored texts in newspapers. "YC XXX is hiring" on HN. I use Firefox + uBlock Origin + Sponsorblock and a few others. Ads are still everywhere. Not as everywhere as they'd be without it, but it's not like adblocks get rid of them all together.
  - Semaphor 4y ago
    Not parent, but I don’t have most of those. > Sponsored segments on YouTube I only watch music videos and very rarely a how to repair video. > Billboards I guess I sometimes see those in US TV shows ;) > newspapers I think I remember those things ;) > is hiring I guess, never saw those as ads. Though now that I think about it, I have started to want to figure out what BuildZoom does with custom homes, why YC funded them, and why I should care. Maybe one day I’ll see enough hiring posts to google them ;)
    - jefftk 4y ago
      > never saw those as ads YC companies pay money to put a message in front of us, in the hope that some of us will respond by taking an action that is highly profitable for them. Seems pretty clearly ads to me!
    - weberer 4y ago
      >>Billboards >I guess I sometimes see those in US TV shows ;) Lucky. In Helsinki they're in every metro station, every bus stop, and sometimes just in random spots along busy streets. Oh, and every metro car has screens playing video ads.
      - Semaphor 4y ago
        It probably helps that I don’t travel much…
      - cronix 4y ago
        In the states, we now have them built into gas station pumps. So any time you get gas you have video ads blasting at you with some crappy loudspeaker.
        hyperdimension 4y ago
        I don't really consider this a solution since I'm opposed to ads creeping into everything on principle, but try hitting the first or second button from the top on the right side. That mutes them around 80% of the time in my experience.
di456 4y ago
Physical retail had grown on me lately. It's usually faster to go in, get what I need, and make it home. Especially for commodity household items.
worik 4y ago
I stopped buying stuff when COVID hit I do buy things, but each purchase is carefully considered. Happier, wealthier, all good

I am generally getting overwhelmed with ads coming from every nook and cranny of life to the point that I don't even want to buy stuff anymore, for a lot of it its like: whats the point?

Semaphor 4y ago

Luckily, I mostly don’t see any ads. Only for work, and on Amazon pretty much. Some more as product placement and in the physical world, but not a ton.

Moru 4y ago
I love the new ad displays in the local shopping mall. They use LCD screens rotated 90 degrees and my sunglases are just the wrong filter angle so they become nice black displays for me. Physical adblocker :-)
- Ensorceled 4y ago
  My wife commented on how shitty some ambulance chaser ad was and all I could see was a black display. Now I want a law that requires all billboards and other such ads to be properly polarized so they can be blocked :-)

Anon4Now 4y ago

If you use Chrome, then switch to another browser that allows full adblocker functionality. I use Firefox with UBlock Origin and hardly see any ads.

input_sh 4y ago
Sponsored segments on YouTube. Billboards. Sponsored texts in newspapers. "YC XXX is hiring" on HN. I use Firefox + uBlock Origin + Sponsorblock and a few others. Ads are still everywhere. Not as everywhere as they'd be without it, but it's not like adblocks get rid of them all together.
- Semaphor 4y ago
  Not parent, but I don’t have most of those. > Sponsored segments on YouTube I only watch music videos and very rarely a how to repair video. > Billboards I guess I sometimes see those in US TV shows ;) > newspapers I think I remember those things ;) > is hiring I guess, never saw those as ads. Though now that I think about it, I have started to want to figure out what BuildZoom does with custom homes, why YC funded them, and why I should care. Maybe one day I’ll see enough hiring posts to google them ;)
  - jefftk 4y ago
    > never saw those as ads YC companies pay money to put a message in front of us, in the hope that some of us will respond by taking an action that is highly profitable for them. Seems pretty clearly ads to me!
  - weberer 4y ago
    >>Billboards >I guess I sometimes see those in US TV shows ;) Lucky. In Helsinki they're in every metro station, every bus stop, and sometimes just in random spots along busy streets. Oh, and every metro car has screens playing video ads.
    - Semaphor 4y ago
      It probably helps that I don’t travel much…
    - cronix 4y ago
      In the states, we now have them built into gas station pumps. So any time you get gas you have video ads blasting at you with some crappy loudspeaker.
      - hyperdimension 4y ago
        I don't really consider this a solution since I'm opposed to ads creeping into everything on principle, but try hitting the first or second button from the top on the right side. That mutes them around 80% of the time in my experience.

di456 4y ago

Physical retail had grown on me lately. It's usually faster to go in, get what I need, and make it home. Especially for commodity household items.

worik 4y ago

I stopped buying stuff when COVID hit I do buy things, but each purchase is carefully considered. Happier, wealthier, all good