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Leave the thing on the ground so the next car kills it properly. Nonconsensual ads are digital rape. It is the same moral scope as buying and selling a person’s digital presence to manipulate and exploit them is digital slavery.

Any company with an advertising budget for spamming and wasting my time is clearly indicating that their competition has a product with better value and reputation. Ads are public service announcements of what to never purchase.

I will not watch ads for anything at all. My time is not subject to that nonsense. I’ll go read or do other things.

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Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I feel exactly the same.

I think at some point we as a society need to heavily regulate and restrict where and when advertisement is allowed, and who is allowed to do it. Things like billboards and optional free services that need revenue should be allowed (with heavy restrictions, things like YouTube and Facebook have gotten absolutely out of control with advertisement) and multibillion dollar corporations should be banned from advertising outside of their own personal properties, at the very least. I’d even support an outright ban of current advertising in favour of spaces online where you can be advertised to if you’re actively looking for options for that service. I understand it would cause some issues with the advertising industry but I wont shed any tears for job losses in that sector.

Something has to be done about the absolutely dystopian horror novel levels of advertising we are subjected to.

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Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I feel exactly the same.

I think at some point we as a society need to heavily regulate and restrict where and when advertisement is allowed, and who is allowed to do it. Things like billboards and optional free services that need revenue should be allowed (with heavy restrictions, things like YouTube and Facebook have gotten absolutely out of control with advertisement) and multibillion dollar corporations should be banned from advertising outside of their own personal properties, at the very least. I’d even support an outright ban of current advertising in favour of spaces online where you can be advertised to if you’re actively looking for options for that service. I understand it would cause some issues with the advertising industry but I wont shed any tears for job losses in that sector.

Something has to be done about the absolutely dystopian horror novel levels of advertising we are subjected to.

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
pump shuts off when it’s hung up tho

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- j4k3@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Yup, but it stays shut off until the next person pays or uses the button. It is just a microswitch on a flap.
  
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