Mildly Infuriating

Too many people here are saying that ads don't work.

Whether they work or not doesn't matter. The problem is that ads are literally designed and optimized to manipulate you out of your money, and to cause you to make decisions on emotion rather than reason. This is unethical at its core. How most people are ambivalent towards companies manipulating us is beyond me.

If your product or service was any good, you wouldn't need ads. 🧐

You know I cannot be the only one that will consciously decide to not buy brands that make intrusive adverts. But, they must also know that. So I can only assume that the majority of people don't think the same and it's an overall upside for these annoying ads.

Ads work. Consumer behavior is among the most studied phenomenoms in the world.

If your product can't enter my world without you paying millions of dollars to interrupt my good time, I am positive I do not need to know about your product.

Sorry but wrong. You are not going to win this kind of battle against advertisers. If you notice the intrusion and hate the product, you weren't in the market for their product in the first place. They don't care that you hate their company. When you are in the market for the product, you won't notice the intrusion or it won't matter if you do; the ad is still increasing your exposure to their product in the ways that increase your chances of buying.

Also the more suspicious I get, and thus less likely to buy, the advertised product.

I also sometimes consciously dislike things because of annoying ads.

But it doesn't matter. The overall result is that now you're aware of that brand, you have a place for it in memory. After time passes it will be The One I've Heard Of unless you're dedicated to remembering to avoid it. There's something called the Mere Exposure Effect - it mostly works and they know it. :(

Especially those sponsor segment that have nothing to do with me because i'm not from the west.

The same with podcasts, especially geolocated ads or what they're called. Here in Norway I always get the same fucking ads on every damn podcast, and they are horrible, like getting raped in the ears. At least I learn which companies to avoid..

I got real into Zero Punctuation about a decade ago, so I'd watch a load of 5 minute youtube videos back to back.

It would serve me the same goddamn ad for a Mission Impossible movie between every one. The ad had this hateful nasally music that went "ready or not, here I come."

I have not paid for a movie ticket, a streaming service, or a new DVD or Blu-Ray since then. Brain surgery with a backhoe, cut your pineal gland off at the waist. Fuck your entire sector of industry, Tom Cruise.

People are responding with ad block but as much as I hate them I kinda like being aware of what they are. Anyone who is confused about why our country is where its at go turn off your ad blockers for videos.

I've held this attitude ever since those Mentos commercials used to interrupt my Much Music in the 90s. These type-A marketing types rarely realized they're just advertising to themselves.

This was today in a friend group of mine's discord server

Yes, I am never buying a Tide product again since it seems they were the only ones to pay Amazon for ads. I was trying to watch a show that I was having difficulty pirating and every damn ad was either for tide or bounty for some damn reason so never buying anything from them again since I had to see like 30 of those ads repeatedly. I usually muted the tv and just browsed my phone but for that first second the ad played I could tell it was for one of them.

Revanced is alive and kicking guys.

"This has got to be the worst advertisement I've ever heard."

"Ah but you have heard it."

Someone should write an article about how interrupting ads actualy negatively affect consumer choices and then popularize it. I am ok even if its just made of shady stats, many will adapt the idea blindly anyways.

Adblock + sponsorblock

Advertising is one of the most prolific environmental pollutants of economic activity, and needs to become as socially acceptable as smoking.

Adnauseam and Sponsorblock should stop you from seeing most ads on youtube.

Y’all are watching ads? If I see an ad, my immediate reaction is to close the tab.