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"Why is their product so bad that they need to advertise it so hard"
this post was submitted on 18 May 2026
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Not just that, but if they're throwing sponsorships and ads all over, it means they have a huge advertising budget. That almost always means their profit margins are unusually high.
Meaning they're a ripoff even if the product isn't a scam.
Or it means they just got a bunch of VC money and are looking to chain you up before exploiting the shit out of you.
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yeah exactly xD
i feel like advertisement should only be allowed once that you're actually looking for that / a similar product. because otherwise the advertisement is completely irrelevant to you anyways, so why do they show it to you?!?
like if i search for "smartphone charging cable" i can be shown like 50 different brands of smartphone chargers. but if i don't search for it, why would i know about them? i'm not gonna buy a new smartphone charger anytime soon.
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Yep.
Absolutely everything that has a huge, pervasive ad campaign is some kind of scam or just shitty product. Not a single good, helpful product was ever advertised so heavily.
Or "Their product must be massively overpriced to pay for all this advertising"
Not enough people think this way.
I don't think that it's that people don't think that way, companies know that. It's that the company is hoping that when the customer needs a service the name comes up. It's a play at the human subconscious. How many ads do you watch that you are able to remember you heard of the service from an ad vs just passing discussion. I can only think of NordVPN and a few insurance companies, they rely on that. They hope that when an issue comes up that requires it, that their name pops up without the negative mentality behind it.
I agree though, I go off the mindset that if I am looking for a product and the first thing that comes to mind is "I saw this in an ad" that means there was enough advertisement budget that I could consciously link it to the ad and not the product, which means there is a massive red flag for the product there.
Remove "this way" and you have the entirety of human issues right now. Way too many idiots running around and in power.
Not enough people know that thinking this way does not protect you. It just gives you that pleasant hit of smugness.
I don't know what you're smoking, but knowing of fum is never going to make me buy fum.
The fact they're pushed all over tells me one incontrovertible thing: Their profit margins are high enough to give them that bloated budget, meaning buying a product that's advertised all over is choosing to get ripped off.
The point is not that you'll see fum and pick it because you recall an ad. The point is that you need any fum-type product, don't really care which, and your hand reaches for fum while you're busy thinking about the stupid thing you said in a pub yesterday, or wondering if it's going to rain.
Don't need fum or anything similar? Congrats! You're not the target group. Doesn't mean ads don't work on you.
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Lol sponsor block extension, faq all your native ads and interaction reminders
Don't forget the shitty preview hooks because apparently the average attention span is 5 seconds nowadays.
As if TV shows didn't have that
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They aren't buying the ads to convince you to buy it anytime soon. They are buying the ads to plant the seed of the link to their brand with whatever the thing is. That way in the future when you have long forgot about the ad and you are looking for bone broth you might buy theirs because it looks familiar even if you don't know why. This is a time tested process that absolutely works.
If you think you are immune to it then you are fooling yourself and are half way to being the perfect little consumer that they want.
SponsorBlock will skip most of the sponsored segments in youtube videos. It's pretty much required if you want to watch youtube now.
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Fully valid mentality.
Nothing gets me less interested in spending money on a brand than having it constantly advertised to me.
I dunno, maybe I got some gene that inverses the reaction I'm supposed to have, because repeated advertising supposedly works really well.
i think for me it's just that i get angry at the brand if they try to shove it down my throat. like, the arrogance, it feels a lot like violation of consent, if i already made my mind up that i don't like their product, being advertised again feels like something that should make me angry.
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100% of the time. Nothing as big a turnoff as over saturation. The needinessβ¦yuck.
And yet again, the never ending confusion over "why the fuck is everyone choosing to see ads?" question comes up.
When I came here to Lemmy I really thought I'd never se any posts about complaining about ads because all you need to never see one is having the tech literacy just slightly above grandma level.
Yet here we are, with weekly posts like this.
And to be clear, I absolutely agree with the comic but it's most if the comments here that's the issue. Why are you people not even firing a single brain cell to decrease the amount of ads you see? They're clearly an annoyance, but they're also INCREDIBLY easy to get rid of.
A problem with uBlock, SponsorBlock, DeArrow, etc., is that it makes viewing sites and videos by greedy assholes bearable, instead of making us boycott the assholes.
I do use uBlock (and SponsorBlock built into a program, along with a site that let's me avoid YouTube's site); but I really should be boycotting some sites and video channels.
Imma be real calling content creators "greedy assholes" for taking sponsors that are the only way to make it financially viable other than patreon while expecting to consume their content for 0 just sounds like peak entitlement
Unless you do actually support creators directly in which case go ahead. And I do in fact recommend just not watching people that you judge to actually be greedy assholes, never once regretted that.
I'm torn there. Im from the old internet where we all just fucked about and had fun. I dont think any of the end-users asked them to quit their jobs and invest their money into editing equipment.
Obviously they need paid for their work, but why is it work? What happened here?
Consider that there are instances where it's not practical to remove ads. I could get a new podcasts app with Sponsorblock integrated, but I already have the app I like all set up and I'm fine with skipping them manually. Some may filter through but so what.
Same with YT videos with Sponsorblock where you're early and you're the one doing people the favor. You have to listen at least part of the ad to mark the time block.
Or sometimes Twitch breaks uBO and you don't realize until you're served an ad and you have to wait for the devs to fix it. There's no simple way of getting around it if you enjoy certain streamers.
It's not that we don't try, but not everyone is capable or interested in insulating their entertainment. There are many factors at play.
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Itβs not just ads. Every video on YouTube is sponsored in the video itself. You can skip the sponsor spots usually but they mention it multiple times.
Youβre right though, everyone should block advertising and tracking at the router level.
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Dragon Marrow is the hip new bone broth, but with added taurine, caffeine, and electrolytes for that perfect Energy Stew
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Same. I think all companies that sponsor channels are crap. No exceptions. Especially all VPNs and Proton.
Ugh. VPNs. They sell you "privacy" via a product that captures all your data and routes it through their network. Then they say "trust us".
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I get the sentiment and I feel the same. But let's not pretend that ads won't work on us. For example what's the first VPN provider that comes to your mind? Even bad press is good press in a way
The first VPN provider that comes to mind (for an average Joe) is probably the one you should avoid though lol. Advertising works on many people, but the thought process that the more ads you see from a single company, the worse their products are holds true for many situations.
Best example is that shitty earbuds company that I'm sure you all remember seeing ads for in the past, still see them occasionally but not as much. Completely unrelated but I like cryptostorm for vpn provider, they are very against kyc and you can get access to their servers without a single piece of identifying information.
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"Wtf. How did this get past sponsorblock?"
Jokes on them, I stay away from all products that advertise to me unless I need said product and go searching for it.
To me, I always get the vibe that the incessant advertising means they're spending too much money on marketing and not enough on actually making a decent product. Maybe thats not true in some cases, but it puts me off of buying their product.
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More Dragon Marrow for me fool
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I used really like ads. They were creative and sometimes I didn't know the products. Now it's just unnecessary.
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Gamer Sups. I only vaguely know what they are (some sort of food?), but the number of ads I see for it make me think I don't want to know any more about it.
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I gave into this recently, even though I should know better.
I saw many ads for Troll Gummy Pops, a frozen version of their candy, which I think is alright. And Iβd just recently had some subpar fruit popsicles that were just OK, but I thought why not, Iβll try something new.
I saw the box at WinCo and it was plastered with ads about something something Xbox, something something Forza. Whatever, so itβs not the generic WinCo brand or the other boring brands I typically get.
Worst case scenario I donβt like it, best case scenario I have a new treat to treat myself to every now and again.
No, the worst case scenario is Iβm so off-put by the texture of a gummy popsicle that the texture and experienceβpaired with the over-the-top sugar, causes me to throw up.
Never again.
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Is this a neurodivergence thing?
I have no source, but I swear I found some study that negatively correlates neurodivergence with advertising effectiveness.
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Evidently, it's not enough when many people try to block or ignore ads.
What would stop them would be a sufficiently large minority that really takes note of the ads they see and actively avoids the products. Like, even when it is the best for a given situation, buy the second best instead.
Only that would take away from the people they still do reach.
In theory, even a minority (20%?) could make ads harmful for the advertiser.
They know you hate the brands that advertise everywhere. The thing is: ads aren't only for the brand that's being advertised. They're for the entire product category.
The advertised brand and 17 others are all subsidiaries of the same company.
Sick of Milwaukee drill ads, so you stick it to them and buy the cheaper Ryobi or Rigid? They're all the same company.
Eyewear? Luxoticca is a monopoly that owns almost every optometrist's office and just about every company making eyewear, so all the competing brands when you're buying glasses are an illusion. RayBan, Oakley, and all the others are all the same company wearing different nametags. Budget brands, premium brands - everything.
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