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Nelots@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

This is insane to me. How people can use the internet with ads is just beyond me.

My friend did have an adblock, but it was the one built into Brave (iirc) by default. I noticed they knew it was there and active, but didn’t really think twice about any of the sites it didn’t block ads on. I assume they just didn’t know it was possible to block certain ads, never really crossing their mind that some adblockers are better than others. No, if theirs can’t do it, no adblock can.

I also think years and years of unskippable commercials on cable TV, and now even streaming services, has made people kinda numb to it.

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OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
This is the terrifying part. Ads have become so normal in everyday life that people see nothing wrong with wasting their life away being marketed to by corporations. How much of someone’s life is wasted hearing their existence isn’t good enough but if they’d only buy some product they could be happy?

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- Pirate@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The Fifteen Million Merits episode of Black Mirror was supposed to be a warming.
  
  But instead it seems corporations used it as a guide, and people just accepted having ads bombarded into their skulls in exchange for content, instead of getting enraged by it.
  
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