Ublock user: "What are these...ads, that you speak of? They sound intriguing."
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2026
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I really think people forget how bad it already was by even 1995. Huge, flashing ad banners were everywhere
What ads? All my services provide ad free services like Netflix, youtube, discover, Disney, ect, and my radio on my car is ad free, and my pc is ad free thanks to adblockers.
Where are you seeing ads?
I’m right there with you, but the OP mentions social media, and that’s all that shit is.
Our society has allowed the way many people keep in touch with one another to be via psychologically manipulative, attention harvesting, advertising machines.
Seriously.
In the 90s, tv shows had ad breaks every 10 minutes. Ad blockers for web browsers hadn’t been invented. The drive to work had ads after every two or three songs. You could buy physical media if you wanted to get tv and radio ad-free, but that severely limited your choices and was inconvenient.
Today, you can still watch broadcast tv and listen to the radio, and they’re still full of just as many ads. You can also still buy physical media. But now you also have the choice of reduced ads with low-tier streaming video services and free-tier pandora/spotify. And for a little more money, you can have completely ad-free tv and radio. And if you still see ads on the web, that’s some kind of masochistic personal choice, or you need to take a free “how use computer?” class at your local senior center.
The only time I ever see ads anymore is billboards.
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?
Fry: Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines and movies and at ball games, on buses and milk cartons and T-shirts and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No, sir-ee!
Bender: Quit squawking, flesh wad. Nobody's forcing you to buy anything.
Bonzai Buddy is back...in AI form!
If you see ads you are doing the Internet very wrong. Install Firefox and uBlock Origin or Ad Nauseum extensions for a much safer, better experience.
Even safer, add NoScript to your Firefox fork of choice
NoScript is good stuff but some folks might not have the patience to use it.
And slap a DNS based ad blocker on top just for good measure.
~~Advertisers~~ Malware and scam hosts can go stick it in their PiHole!
People ditched Myspace in part because of the ad saturation.
There was a time when Facebook was the clean and minimalist version of social media.
I haven't looked at it since those days. I'd probably get instantaneous eye cancer looking at it today...
Even just the occasional glance at my spouses' phone screen ~~gives me cancer~~: it's full of ads or 'sponsored content' or 'content' that's a blatant advertisement.
I rarely venture on FB these days, perhaps twice a year. So I was surprised when I last logged in to find a number of posts from people and groups I've never heard of, because FB had decided I'd probably enjoy their content.
All it told me was that people aren't posting enough to make the feed worthwhile, so they have to inject bullshit into it too.
IMHO It's literally poison.
I don't disagree.
The eye cancer would happen because of someone's custom html profile theme.
Ads on social media must suck. Glad we're all here on lemmy where we get inundated with communist propaganda instead of consumerist propaganda.
Or endless ads for Linux.
Which is the communist OS, of course.
Or you were watching TV, listening to the radio, reading a magazine, driving down the street, look up at the sky, reading a newspaper, checking your mail.......
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?
Fry: Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines and movies and at ball games, on buses and milk cartons and T-shirts and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No, sir-ee!
Yeah! I mean, we all have commercials in our dreams, but you don't see us running off to buy brand-name merchandise at low low prices.
Slight facial tick
When I was a kid it was <10 minutes of ads per hour on TV and (I think) 12 minutes per hour on radio, roadside billboards were illegal in my county, and the local newspaper ads were mostly relegated to the back page and sunday inserts.
There were also no blatant ads pre-roll at movie theaters and productions got bad press for having product placement.
At the same time??
Talent
Social media is for idiots, u deserve the ads on that toxic trash.
Almost time to delete this app, for real.
I wonder if that's why I hate ads so much. Grew up with the understanding that they are a literal attack to both me and my property. ...I mean, that's still exactly what they are, but acknowledging them as such is definitely a minority mindset nowadays.
One of those viruses is Windows.
Shhh...
Just use CoPilot bb
No tears, only Microsoft CoPilot (brought to you by the Microsoft Corporation)
Fuck MichaelSlop
Mr. Nadella would prefer it if you stopped using the word "sl*p" as he finds it deeply offensive.
It makes him a sad little CEO. Won't you think of the poor CEO?
I guess we have some misconception who is Gen Z really.
What was that thing where a website could create a sort of borderless window with a hot chick or cute character in it simply by visiting the website. And you couldn't close it because it was borderless with no buttons.
Now the viruses go straight into your brain. Talk about efficiency!
Wow I bet this one kills at the vet's club