Comment on YouTube cracking on ad blockers.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year agoSome of us are legitimately broke (or on a very limited income). I get that some folk believe it’s the capitalist way to force us to starve or succumb to the elements to demonstrate to others that humans have no value other than their productive worth to some plutocrat.
Heave ho, thieves and beggars, never shall we die!
Polar@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Ya I know. I’m living pay cheque to pay cheque. If I can’t afford something, I watch ads. It’s simple.
Why do you expect everything free?
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Actually I expect some day the benefits that allow me to survive will end and I’ll be another statistic.
But for now, the United States feels that I’m better off alive, though destitute, and unable to actually afford rent in California.
In the meantime, the millennials and zoomers I know don’t expect to own anything ever. They eat whatever cheap food they can afford and pay rent and utilities and have a handful of trappings, and people write articles about how they’re not into diamonds or owning real estate, or keeping a savings account. And one by one, they too are slipping through the cracks, usually when they slip down the stairs or get injured at work or catch a cold and don’t have the strength to go into their job when their boss calls them desperate for a filler.
So regardless of what I expect, our establishment companies don’t want to give anyone anything. They reward hard workers by working them harder.
I don’t watch ads because they’re antagonistic. I tend to avoid anything that features dark patterns because I’m susceptible to them, and they signal the product has been contaminated by its manufacturers with malicious intent.
Shurimal@kbin.social 1 year ago
I can't afford to pay 20€ per month--that's more than my whole monthly phone bill with something like 50 or 100 GB of data. Cost of living is high enough as it is.
I also lack the most valuable currency there is in one's life, one that you simply can't get more of. Time. So I block ads, which cost a lot of time, with extreme prejudice.
Ads are also bad for my mental health, they just irritate me, rack up stress and easily swing me into bad mood.
Lastly, I don't give a fuck about costing money to some multi-billion corporation. I don't care about them as much as they don't care about me; the corpos see me just as a resource to exploit as much as possible then move on to another one when there's nothing more to exploit, and I see the corpos exactly the same way. Call it mutual parasitism. Yes, I'm a parasite. And parasites are the most successful lifeforms on Earth.
Polar@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
meowMix2525@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Oh no, some troll on the internet thinks I’m the one with issues. What will I ever do.
papertowels@lemmy.one 1 year ago
People out here being dramatic af.
Looks like they deleted their comment, but someone was saying watching ads is being “sub human”.
Like homie there are literal wars going on rn and you think watching an ad is a violation of your human rights. Then they turn around and call other folks privileged. Bruh lol.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
You regard mental health issues as a character flaw in 2023? All of western civilization deals with intergenerational dysfunction and late stage capitalism. Of course we’re stressed out.
Usually we only hear derision regarding mental health from the alt-right. Are you an alpha male? Are you a Brexiteer?
Educate yourself on the harsh conditions of the reL world and grow some empathy.
Otherwise there will be no-one left to stand for you when the Leopards come to eat your face.
Shurimal@kbin.social 1 year ago
Correct. I'm quite good at working around them, though. Best way to do that is to avoid shit that's problematic for me. The biggest issue is I absolutely hate when something wastes my time, and especially if it is totally irrelevant and unnecessary, especially especially if that something is some zero-IQ manipulative no-effort loud noisy auditory or visual crap.
And you are an asshole.
LemmysMum@lemmy.world 1 year ago
papertowels@lemmy.one 1 year ago
TIL watching an ad is being treated subhuman.
Polar@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Okay. Just because you are a begging chooser doesn’t mean everyone is.
LemmysMum@lemmy.world 1 year ago