It would also help if I were served ads that even attempt to approach the vicinity of my own interests. That is vanishingly rare.
Comment on YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave
Chobbes@lemmy.world 5 months agoThere is potentially a world in which you want to see ads because ads themselves do technically provide a service. You do want to know about things you care about and would want to buy… you just don’t want it obnoxiously shoved into your face all of the time in psychologically manipulative ways.
skulblaka@startrek.website 5 months ago
glimse@lemmy.world 5 months ago
SoundCloud serves me casino ads and ads in Spanish
I don’t gamble and I don’t speak Spanish
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I don’t gamble and I don’t speak Spanish
…yet.
evranch@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Look at the way ads used to look “back in the day”, with details about the product, its features, and reasons you would actually want to buy it. New tractor model, this many HP, pulls 4 bottom plow, burns this much diesel per hour, buy now and grow more corn.
However it turned out that it worked better just to try to trick people into buying a product that they didn’t need, and that’s how we got the ads we have today.
TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 5 months ago
True, but if corporations don’t care to adhere to ethical standards, then the users shouldn’t need to either.