Comment on There's ads on an apple

• stickly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Kind of a philosophical question from your response: is any type of advertising OK? I don’t doubt that advertisers can and will continue to pollute every inch of our lives, but in a vacuum this is basically an ideal ad. Its minimal, clever, untargeted, temporary, for a decent show, and not massively over produced or jarring. To me, those aspects make it OK and I won’t complain.

  However, there’s simply not enough opportunities like this for advertising to exist as an ethical profession. There’s no point cheering it on or “voting with your wallet”, it’s not possible for 90% of products to have this serendipity. But I can’t say “fuck all advertising” when it does technically serve a purpose and can very occasionally be done in an ethical and interesting way. I’d rather see this specific post than the majority of banal memes on my feed.

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  • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Consensual advertising is ok. You make a website for your business that I visit because I search for or advertise in the yellow pages or whatever it is fine. I sought out information and you are listed in a directory.

    The problem of course is gaming these systems. SEO and shit. Some people will pay a great deal of money to be listed first. What’s fair? Is alphabetical fair? Does that give an advantage to “Aaron”? I don’t know. But we aren’t even at the point where this is a real discussion so it doesn’t matter I guess.

    Otherwise the advertising profession has consistently shown that they have no ethics whatsoever and if you give them an inroad into your thing they will overtake and destroy it. The radio, newspaper, tv, internet, outdoors, literally everything. All the privacy concerns we have online tie back to advertising fucks and government overreach.

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  • Jollyllama@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well said.

    There will always be slop advertisements. I avoid traditional advertising by pirating or paying for an ad free version. I do still watch ads in the form of product reviews and such. There are great products that I found through advertising that I otherwise wouldn’t.

    There is a lot of awful advertising and I’m numb to it, my brain doesn’t even register it.

    The problem is bad advertising works. My job is related to the text messaging industry. We have clients that spent six figures on sending marketing messages, for every dollar they are spending on text marketing they are making 5x more in profit.

    I like to think that there will be a shift in advertising towards more thoughtful placement as consumers learn to ignore but honestly I think that’s my own bias. Most people are susceptible to slop advertisements and so the slop will continue.

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    • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Your job sucks fuck you

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      • umbrellacloud@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I used to feel this way too. But, there are worse things to be.

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• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Subaru is selling cars by telling a totally unrelated story about teens with cancer who are going to die before their prom. Easily the most exploitive commercial on TV.

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  • snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And how is buying a Subaru going to cure cancer?

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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Why is it not ok?

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  • bold_atlas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    it probably would be in a time were advertisements weren’t tied with cancer in popularity. nevertheless here we are.

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    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s an add on a barcode sticker that’s already going to be there. There’s adds that are annoying or intrusive, and then there’s adds that are like this, and no one cares about.

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