It feels like a weird study. I can’t tell if the study, or just the article, was trying to make GenZ look like fools yet again, when the actual results found are “GenZ is like a lot of other people in yet another way”.
Comment on Gen Z mostly doesn't care if influencers are actual humans, new study shows
_edge@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
What a non-story.
They basically asked: In an ad, do you prefer an actor reading out the marketing script or a computer-rendered face?
eronth@lemmy.world 1 month ago
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I just… don’t watch ads.
Firefox, ublock origin, NextDNS when mobile, pfBlockerNG at home.
I’ve gotten to the point where it’s genuinely jarring if I see an add on one of my own devices.
TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 1 month ago
Ever watch somebody who doesn't know about all that use the rawdog Internet? It's amazing how people can just sit there and not go apeshit. The population has been conditioned.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
It is pretty insane and depressing that pervasive, jaw-droppingly targeted ads have more or less been completely normalized with the vast majority of the population. I sometimes feel like I have a tin foil hat on when I try to educate people about it these days. Everyone just seems to mostly not care.
loobkoob@kbin.social 1 month ago
I installed uBlock for someone recently. They complained about all the empty space where the ads used to be. So I removed the empty space by blocking that element with uBlock, which increased the width of the main body of the website, and they then complained that the website was too wide...
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 month ago
It’s a harrowing experience I don’t intend to repeat any time soon.
xePBMg9@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
How does that affect you instagram browsing experience?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
What’s instagram?
More seriously: I haven’t had any Meta service or app on any EDC/daily use device I own in roughly 8 years. The only device thar explicitly touches meta stuff is an old android phone I have on a separate DMZ network (yes, I know the internet is rife with Meta (et al) tracking vomit these days, but I think this is close to the best a reasonable, technically inclined person can do).