Everything that makes advertisers happy is to the detriment of humanity as a whole. Everything that makes advertisers’ jobs easier also makes it easier for authoritarian governments. “Innovation” is no longer about creating new things, it’s about taking what already works, breaking it, shoving ads on it and charging a ransom in the form of a premium subscription.
On the other hand, there are endless ad-skipping tools, pages and sites where the main attraction is the lack of ads without a subscription. More and more people are talking about how intrusive and annoying ads are, even those who make their living from them. As the efforts of big tech to please advertisers grow, so do the efforts of ordinary people to screw them.
Very Cyberpunk.
PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 3 weeks ago
Advertising is pollution
All advertising is a psyop
All advertisers are eco terrorists and gaslighters.
They are enemies of normal people.
They have forgone their humanity and our planet and our own well being.
They should not exist.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Advertising doesn’t have to exist.
Like, we could just pass laws restricting or outright banning certain kinds.
I think people just forget that we can tell corporations they can’t do whatever the fuck they want.
PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 3 weeks ago
Think about how much waste in bandwidth and electricity happens just to make a webpage unreadable.
Marketers are the opposite of accomplishment.
It’s a job that only exists in capitalism
If you’re a marketer and you read this, fuck you personally.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
they forget because the corporations pay for propaganda to tell them it’s impossible
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And then those people can go do something useful with their lives!
The catch: it’s honest work
Prathas@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Are this, like, the opening lines to an awesome, dystopian sci-fi novel?
msage@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
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I am none of the above.