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I agree with most of what you say but I don't know how you manage to see that amount of ads. I use a couple of browser plugins and generally I don't see more th

I agree with most of what you say but I don't know how you manage to see that amount of ads. I use a couple of browser plugins and generally I don't see more than maybe five ads a day, not counting sponsor spots in youtube videos (which I could remove with even more plugins but meh).

RugnirViking 3y ago
It's highly variable. Some days id see none online, some days id see three dozen. Depends if I have to use certain websites like facebook, linkedin, etc. However it's fairly consistent that on my short walk to work ill see two or three ads plastered on busses (well usually several per bus but we'll be kind and count them as one), and maybe a dozen adverts on the side of buildings, billboards, adverts and bus stops, random advert screens on the pavement, and more. I'll also often see posters for upcoming concerts and stickers for local shops and venues attached to lampposts, electrical boxes, walls, the floor, any surface. Often they are layered on top of older ones several deep. The posters are fine, honestly even a little charming by their lack of permanence and by comparison to the offensive eyesore digital screens exhorting me to buy junk food I have already heard of pretty much every day for my entire life. But I wouldn't miss them. I can find lists of all upcoming concerts in my area with no effort at all.
- omgmajk 3y ago
  I mainly thought you were talking about online ads only but even if I account for things outside I don't really see that much. It's mostly on bus stops and most days I just drive to work and then back home which renders me seeing zero ads on the way. They're not that common where I live.
NiloCK 3y ago
Billboards? Street posters? I'm in an airport right now and can easily count a dozen ads in my field of view, even counting the two large ad carousel displays as one apiece. I'm sure I encountered hundreds on my way to this gate.
- omgmajk 3y ago
  I mean, at bus stops there are some ads but I mainly just drive to work and back home and I'm out in my area just hanging with friends or chilling in nature but really street ads are not that common here. I did however mostly speak about ads on the internet, because that's what I thought the OP was talking about.
_Algernon_ 3y ago
Are you ever outside? I see that number of ads on a single trip with my city's mass transit. I'd see that number of ads in a single 100m walk downtown.
- omgmajk 3y ago
  Street ads are not that common here and I'm never really in the central area of my city. However I mainly spoke about online ads because that's what I thought OP was talking about.

RugnirViking 3y ago

It's highly variable. Some days id see none online, some days id see three dozen. Depends if I have to use certain websites like facebook, linkedin, etc. However it's fairly consistent that on my short walk to work ill see two or three ads plastered on busses (well usually several per bus but we'll be kind and count them as one), and maybe a dozen adverts on the side of buildings, billboards, adverts and bus stops, random advert screens on the pavement, and more. I'll also often see posters for upcoming concerts and stickers for local shops and venues attached to lampposts, electrical boxes, walls, the floor, any surface. Often they are layered on top of older ones several deep. The posters are fine, honestly even a little charming by their lack of permanence and by comparison to the offensive eyesore digital screens exhorting me to buy junk food I have already heard of pretty much every day for my entire life. But I wouldn't miss them. I can find lists of all upcoming concerts in my area with no effort at all.

omgmajk 3y ago
I mainly thought you were talking about online ads only but even if I account for things outside I don't really see that much. It's mostly on bus stops and most days I just drive to work and then back home which renders me seeing zero ads on the way. They're not that common where I live.

NiloCK 3y ago

Billboards? Street posters? I'm in an airport right now and can easily count a dozen ads in my field of view, even counting the two large ad carousel displays as one apiece. I'm sure I encountered hundreds on my way to this gate.

omgmajk 3y ago
I mean, at bus stops there are some ads but I mainly just drive to work and back home and I'm out in my area just hanging with friends or chilling in nature but really street ads are not that common here. I did however mostly speak about ads on the internet, because that's what I thought the OP was talking about.

_Algernon_ 3y ago

Are you ever outside? I see that number of ads on a single trip with my city's mass transit. I'd see that number of ads in a single 100m walk downtown.

omgmajk 3y ago
Street ads are not that common here and I'm never really in the central area of my city. However I mainly spoke about online ads because that's what I thought OP was talking about.