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You sound like an ad exec. I never want ads ever, they are by their nature intrusive. I have never bought anything from a targeted ad on social media. If one pl
by anton-c 1y ago
You sound like an ad exec. I never want ads ever, they are by their nature intrusive. I have never bought anything from a targeted ad on social media. If one plays and I can't turn down the volume quick enough I will make noise to avoid hearing it.
If an ad is placed in a way that forces you to look at it you have every right to want to remove it. If it's in my personal power, I do.
- adrr 1y agoIf it didn’t work on people companies wouldn’t spend hundreds of billions of dollars on ads. Everyone says the same thing that ads don’t work on them but the data says otherwise.
- anton-c 1y agoIt clearly does. That's why my post was about avoiding it at all costs. I however can confidently stand by my no purchase claim. I'm guessing you arent actually clicking facebook ads(if u don't run adblock for some odd reason.) It's not difficult to avoid that.
- chistev 1y agoHave you read those comments about how people who says ads don't work on them fail to realize it works on them subconsciously when they go shopping?
- t400 1y agoSuch a claim needs evidence; by its nature, it insulates itself from counter-arguments based on experience. If person X says "ads don't work on me", the state "I experience no influence from ads because they don't work" is indistinguishable from "I experience no influence from ads because they're so sneaky that they only affect me subconsciously". Unfortunately, it's very hard to get individual-level evidence. You can get population-level evidence, but sometimes that evidence shows that the ads don't actually work (for instance, The Correspondent's 2019 articles about the subject).
- anton-c 1y agoWhich is borderline nonsense nowadays. If this were another website, I'd convey it thru the meme of SpongeBob showing Patrick all the diapers* with captions of "sports betting" "pokemon speculation" "monetization in games" with maybe the last panel being "diamonds are valuable" They have always had powerful psychological tools but they are next level nowadays. Best to just avoid. * https://i.imgflip.com/2yg87r.png https://i.imgflip.com/2yg87r.png (I don't think pokemon intentionally wants such a toxic secondary market tbf)
- Retric 1y agoI actively avoid products I see mass market advertising for. It’s a useful heuristic, if you see a YouTube advertising campaign you can basically guarantee the product is poor value for the money. That extends to basically all name brand products like soap. Cheap signs along the road don’t trip that heuristic because they cost so little it doesn’t change the underlying economics.
- anton-c 1y agoI too use the metric of seeing a YouTube sponsor or ad usually means it's bad. I was actually interested in some of those privacy/info removal services but after doing research found those to - as you said - lack value for the money.
- chistev 1y agoHow does an ad being on YouTube mean it's a bad product?
- nemomarx 1y agoIf a product needs to pay people to talk about it, it must not have organic buzz and popularity. Think VPNs sponsoring YouTubers, or those cheap wireless earbuds from a small brand. I wouldn't trust their quality.
- lrvick 1y agoExactly why I do not own any Apple or Google products or have any subscription services. Advertise to me products I can not actually own or control for myself and I hate you.
- anton-c 1y agoGenuinely wondering as I would love to say what you did in your first sentence: what devices do you use? Are the Asian built phones better, or do you use a smartphone at all?