Ads are an epidemic now, I consider them a life threatening terrorist entity. I personaly have seen people throw their laptops, tablets, phones on the floor from sheer anger and frustration, some elderly and disabled friends can no longer cope with this epidemic as many of them need their devices to contact health and medical services or contact relatives and friends or for emergencies, some of them are so so depressed because of this epidemic of greed by the ad sponsors, creators and scammers depriving them of their essential life saving devices. These medically and phisically challenged individuals say they just want to end it all and die. All AD Criminals need to face serious charges for these offences. I've lost 3 exceptional close friends to ad terrorism, they just gave up, stopped their medications, health devices and eating and passed away, they felt so completely abandoned, frustrated and hopeless. Last edited: May 28, 2026 at 9:10 AM
I love how your phones listen to ur conversations and shit u talk about with ppl all of a sudden u start seeing ads for it
One day they will beam the ads directly into your brain. That's a nobrainer. Pun intended Then we’ll fondly remember the days when we could just click away the ads
You know, seeing that the tech industry is picking up the worst ideas from sci-fi I'm pretty sure Max Headroom style blipverts can't be too far off. And yeah, they will also make your head explode in some cases. And sure, it will be brushed under the rug as it's just a rare freak incident. Anything not to weaken the bottom line. To quote The Onion writer Alex Blechman: So, in the future we'll have to wear tinfoil hats not to be disturbed by constant ads, right? Fuck this.
Since a few months ago, my phone starts randomly waiting for vocal input. Sometimes there's only tv speaking. Still can't figure out what's happening lol
Why not do Music for Adverts? If Eno can do it for airports.... Then it could be your ad the gets more people to use an adblocker. The financial magik starts when you own some of that adblocker.
Oh ya, forgot to mention. Get a SponsorBlock-compatible extension/UserScript on desktop / YouTube app w/ SponsorBlock on Android. It'll skip over "and now a word from our sponsor" segments in videos (among other fluff, depending on settings).
Kinda goes with the territory. If you want stuff for free then plenty of people are very happy to give it to you, but you have to remember you don't really get anything for free. So the mere act of getting used to something that is notionally free as something that is absolutely free and then getting upset when it turns out to not be free is naive. I know you probably know all that - and yes, it's annoying and I feel it as well of course. But honestly the problem is far wider than the internet isnt it? We all bought into a lie pretty much the moment we were born. Free(dom)
