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I don't have money to pay premium to not see ads. What in the world makes you think that I have money to buy what you are advertising me?

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨capuccino@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩

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  • TheFogan@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why do you think some of the most advertised things are… predatory loans and gambling.

    Honestly for me the worse of it is, basically on linkedin and similar, people pretending to be recruiters, opening with a fake job posting and asking for your resume, then to follow it up with "Hey you know I don’t think this resume is going to get by, can I put you in contact with my resume company, they will sharpen up your resume for $300. Umm… so yeah, don’t know if you guessed this, but I have no clue when my next paycheck is coming in, this isn’t the time to ask me to drop a large amount of money on something that may not do anything.

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    • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      ugh yeah. the gambling. I mean that one is straight out like. play our game and you will make millions guaranteed. I mean with that voice saying the bank account balance thing. this should be crazy illegal. Im a big victimless crimes person but I have to say I would like advertising for adult things to be limited to adult venues. I don’t think they should allow gambling sites to even be listed in app stores or be indexed by search engines but like if your at a bar or strip club they could have a poster with a QR code.

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      • BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        “Victimless crime” has always been kind of a grey term anyway. There are two sides to the types of things that refers to.

        Doing drugs? Being a prostitute? Gambling your money away? Victimless crimes.

        Manufacturing drugs? Being a pimp? Running a casino? I’m not so sure.

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    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And nowdays you just know their $300 “service” is going to be “run it through an LLM.”

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    • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There’s zero ads for loans and gambling where I am since it’s illegal. So that’s not relevant everywhere.

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      • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s also demographic based. I get ads for hormones to fix the perimenopause, weed gummies and comfy pants.

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  • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s the neat thing, they don’t.

    Marketing looks like it is there to make you buy products, but it’s a well-known fact that this doesn’t work, and online ads specifically allow performance measurements, and they show that it’s not worth the money.

    So what are ads actually there for then?

    First, remember that the thing that marketing departments are best at is marketing their own importance to company management. They are really good at convincing their companies that if they stop marketing, everything will collapse. So in this way, marketing is there to finance the marketing department, and everyone’s too scared to stop marketing, because if they do they will be seen as the biggest idiots ever.

    Second, marketing is there to provide a small revenue stream to the platform where you see the ads, but more importantly to punish you for not paying premium. Youtube makes you watch a shitton of ads, not because they care about whether you buy anything from the ads, but to punish you for not paying premium and to get you to do so. A premium customer brings in orders of magnitude more money than an ad-only customer.

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    • WindyRebel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They are really good at convincing their companies that if they stop marketing, everything will collapse.

      I hate that I’m going to defend marketing here, but if they do stop marketing then things will collapse. Do I like marketing, personally? No. That’s why I got out of marketing and am becoming an elementary school teacher to help others rather than spit propaganda but I digress…

      Marketing isn’t always about generating a sale. Many times its reach and brand recall. We’re a global economy now, so reach is massively important for survival. Stopping marketing limits who is exposed to your brand and the repetition makes your company synonymous with a product.

      Why do we call tissues Kleenex? Why do we call cotton swabs a Qtip? Why do we call small sticky notepads Post-Its? Why do we call searching “Googling”? Why do we gravitate toward those brands even when cheaper and more generic options exist that are perfectly on par?

      Making those brands the prime thing you think of when you use a specific thing so that no one thinks of using something else even when they have money. You want people to mention your product or think about it even if they aren’t buying it.

      You’re drowning out the potential of your competition. That’s marketing, and if you stop then your competitor takes over or a small business won’t grow.

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      • ssladam@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        As an engineer who hated marketing, started my own business, which subsequently failed due to my lack of understanding for the importance and proper execution of the marketing mission… I now have a deep respect, and appreciation of a well-run marketing function.

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      • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Why do we gravitate toward those brands even when cheaper and more generic options exist that are perfectly on par?

        To be fair, there are plenty of people who specifically avoid those brands because they are more expensive and they know they can save money with cheaper alternatives, or because they can’t afford the name brand.

        With that said, there are some times where the name brand does actually provide a superior product.

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      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah, everyone knows Coca-Cola. Nobody immediately goes out to buy some when they see the ad with Santa Clause and whatever, but the brand recognition is conditioned into pretty much everyone so you notice it in the store when you’re thinking of grabbing a cool beverage from the fridge.

        It’s not even that good, but it’s the default.

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      • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You’re drowning out the potential of your competition. That’s marketing, and if you stop then your competitor takes over or a small business won’t grow.

        Tbh, I don’t think it’s that powerful. I’ve been happily googling on DuckDuckGo for years, same as I have been using Post-its from all sorts of companies and in fact never from Post-it. I don’t think this brand is even available in my country.

        I’ve been using “Tixo” for “sticky tape” even though the Tixo brand went out of business around the time I was born.

        In fact, if a brand name becomes genericised, it loses its power. It stops being a brand and becomes a generic term for anything in that space.

        Brand recognition also goes the other way. You know, like when you see a McDonalds and you instinctively go “Ugh, these asshats who keep wasting my time with always the same ad over and over again when I try to watch a youtube video.”

        Intrusive ads don’t further positive brand recognition but instead cause brand fatigue.

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    • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If marketing majors could read, they’d be very upset.

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    • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Marketing is more than just advertising and promoting though. Marketing is an integral part of a business. If you research what your target marketing likes, that’s marketing. Researching where you should sell your products, marketing. Focus group testing, marketing. What price you should sell, marketing. Even if a business doesn’t have a marketing department they still engage in marketing.

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      • Zink@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah, it’s a very broad umbrella term.

        I’m an engineer on a team that designs new products and fixes old ones. I’m happy to joke about the advertising & sales departments being the dark side of marketing, but when it comes to creating a product that is useful for our end-users, other facets of marketing are absolutely essential. The ideal, after all, is to have whatever ticket I am working on be traceable back to a customer need.

        Heck, the product is pretty niche so even when I am chatting with our service technician about whatever crazy stuff customers are seeing & doing in the field, you could justify calling that marketing. It’s customer information making its way to future design decisions, even if that decision is actually being made by an engineer rather than the Product Manager.

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    • melfie@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      the thing that marketing departments are best at is marketing their own importance to company management

      That’s quite an interesting insight.

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      • iglou@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And a catchy one, but not really meaningful or correct.

        The whole comment showcases how little they know about running a business. Marketing works. But of course we the consumer don’t notice it works, because we think “Well I never click on an ad…” which also reflects on advertisement statistics.

        But that’s not the point of ads, at least not anymore. The point is you saw the brand. You saw what they do. Everytime you see the brand name or logo, everytime you see the product, your brain registers it. You might not realise it, but it does. And when the time comes you need a product like that, that’s where the value of marketing shows. Because you’ll browse, research, or whatever you do when you decide you need something. And you’ll see the brand, and you’ll see the name, and you’ll think “Hmm I’ve heard of them before” and immediately place them higher in your mind than a competitor with 0 ad budget.

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    • Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I find it boss that ads don’t make anymony. They seem to be driving the whole world economy.

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      • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They make money for those who sell ad space.

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    • SippyCup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is one of those fun conspiracy theories that is harmless, and can’t be argued against because you can always just say “SEE THEY’VE CONVINCED YOU TOO!”

      It’s not, we can prove that marketing does in fact impact sales, but it’s fun nonetheless.

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  • Goretantath@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    People keep saying that ads are to get the brand into my head, but they dont realise thats a bad thing for the company. I specificly buy brands i DONT see ads for because i believe if they arent spending money on ads but are still being sold in storesz they must be spending that money on bettering the product instead.

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sadly, you’re not the norm. Getting the brand into peoples’ heads actually works in most cases, which is why they keep doing it.

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      • fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s insane to me how little thought people put into things in their daily lives, because you’re right. So many period people see a thing and they’re like “Oh, I see the thing. I’ll do the thing. Coke flavored mouthwash on my TV? Yeah, let’s do coke flavored mouthwash.” Literally just the first unfiltered, uncritical reaction they feel.

        I had someone the other day tell me they didn’t want to use Firefox because when they did it gave them a bunch of security issues. The security issues in question were the browser asking them if they wanted to let different websites know their location, have access to webcam, etc.

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      • CannedYeet@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yes, this has been proven experimentally.

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    • thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      seems strange to me that this (in the attached image) isn’t the normal way people think

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  • blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you don’t have money for either product then you are not their target demographic, and thus, you being inconvenienced or delayed does not concern them in the slightest.

    Their goal is to get money from the people who have money. How they affect people with no money is not a factor in their decisions, since no money will be acquired from them regardless.

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    • VoiHyvaLuojaMitaNyt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I get that for stuff like billboards and tv/radio commercials… But why does google and friends keep telling me about how they need my data to give me targeted ads? If they wanted to give me targeted ads, shouldn’t they first figure out how much I’m willing to pay, then get mad at me because I can’t pay for anything and maybe offer ads for mental health services?

      I mean obviously the answer is that they just want the data for control and whatnot. But they should just drop the whole pretending to do targeted advertising. I would probably appreciate their honesty if they just told me that they need my data to grow their business, instead of giving me the “we care about your data” and targeted ads bullshit lol

      But anyway, doesn’t really matter for me personally since I use ad blockers, if I can’t use ad blockers, I’ll stop using the service and go read a book.

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    • VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      get money from the people who have money.

      The “whales” is the advertising business term for that.

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  • definitely_AI@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    While we’re clearing out the air, if I buy your shitty product, why do I still need to see your fucking ads?

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    • Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Or worse.

      Theres a product I need, never seen an ad for it. Go online, buy it. Thats all my ads are for the next 3 months like I’m some sort of fucking collector now.

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      • MerryJaneDoe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And, closely related, the recurring “auto ship” suggestion for items like electric razors or oven mitts.

        Yep, you nailed it, Alexa, I absolutely need one of these shipped every fucking week. Saved me so much hassle!

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  • Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The fact that McDonald’s exists is proof that advertising works.

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    • Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Last time I went to cDonald’s it tasted fine and was rather enjoyable. But I felt queasy the following day.

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I find it wild that people are still under the impression that advertising doesn’t work. I get it, you block ads, you aggressively ignore them, you feel like they never influence you. Same here. But they do influence us. A little bit here and there. Then consider that most people are way more suggestible than we are. If ads didn’t work, they would’ve never been a thing.

    You might think you cannot afford to buy most things advertised, but the numbers don’t lie. They’ll get you eventually. Even if it’s just $3. Not having money never really stopped people from spending it anyhow.

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    • rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It is because it works that I spend so much time trying to block them. I don’t need them trying to manipulate me, gaslight me, or try to convince me I need shit I don’t want.

      It’s incredibly toxic.

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    • SippyCup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s unlikely that you’re exceptional in your resistance to advertising.

      It’s just that 95% of all advertising fails to hit its intended target.

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      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I am definitely in the vast minority of people who go so far to not see ads. Not many people will tinker with a raspberry pi for hours just to avoid the possibility of an ad appearing in video streaming services. Lemmy is a bubble that way. You’d rarely meet someone in real life that uses pihole for example but there’s thousands on here who do.

        And I think the number is higher than 95%. All it takes is a tiny percentage for it to all be worth it.

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    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You might think you cannot afford to buy most things advertised, but the numbers don’t lie. They’ll get you eventually. Even if it’s just $3.

      Do you really believe that? $3 isn’t going to get me the things I see ads for that I’d actually be tempted by. As to things $3 or below, I’m never shopping at the craft store that hates gay people. I’m never buying from the top fast food places either. These are things I already made decisions on for moral reasons and I’ve never swayed on in all my years, so why on Earth would an ad make a difference?

      I don’t think advertisers (or those that think any old ad is bound to be effective) consider that there are some of us who make decisions based on our own criteria. I recognize that I’m not like most people, but to say that such ads are still going to “get [me] eventually” is nonsense.

      Not having money never really stopped people from spending it anyhow.

      Maybe for some, but that’s again not something that applies to everyone. I don’t even have a credit card. I’ve had nearly 20 years of adulthood in which to get one, have bought/leased cars and rented apartments without a problem (despite no card, paying off student loans means my credit score is pretty good), and I prefer the security of only spending money I’ve already got. Advertisers can have fun trying to squeeze blood money from a stone.

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      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I don’t really understand this comment. You actually really believe you are the one person in history completely unaffected by messaging? I cannot imagine thinking that. I have no doubt it would be trivial to disprove this to you in an in person conversation but I’m not getting dragged into an argument in here for it.

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      • MrFinnbean@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I love how many unique people who are immune to adds here are.

        You are being effected by adds, you will do purchace decision effected by add campaing. You have done purchace decision effected by add campaign.

        You can have moral standing and boycot companies. You can decite you dont use that one brand, but as long as you are consumer, your buying habits will always be slightly effected by adds.

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      • Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You probably simply never noticed. Maybe the grocery chain you buy at. Maybe a particularly flashy packaging of a food item in said grocery store. Maybe an outrageous fun sex toy you saw in porn. Maybe you’re subscribed to a Patreon somewhere. Maybe you have a t-shirt of your favorite show. Do you really make all these decisions completely conscious of all advertising you saw before, making sure that you do not miss any better alternatives with worse advertising?

        No person can think so much about all their decisions to spend money. No one can be so perfectly conscious of every single sensory input. Advertising works on everyone, you just don’t even notice when it works on you.

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  • InvalidName2@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They aren’t worried in the literal you, in one sense.

    Advertising is a temporal numbers game. Any one random single individual (or household) at any given time is insignificant. You are a speck of dust in the wind.

    On the flip side, advertising is (or can be) a long game. At the moment you may be too young, too poor, too healthy, too whatever for their ads to be relevant. However, if they advertise enough and you see enough of these ads, it can make an impression (even if subliminal). And down the line when you’re old enough to need dick pills and making just enough to afford them, you’re now aware that dick pills exist and suddenly now that you’re in the market for dick pills your reptilian brain will remember that jingle “Like a rock” and how Dicken’s dick pills are the key to feeling 18 again. Suddenly you’re sucking down Dicken’s pills like they’re candy.

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  • FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because you might have money someday

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  • YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because you saved that money so that you could buy their product!

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  • eezeebee@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    On the other hand, you never see ads for beans and yet you can’t stop thinking about them.

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    • D_C@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Rubbish, I can stop thinking about beans any time I want.
      …
      …
      Mmmmmmm, beans on toast with a bit of cheese. DAMNIT!

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    • ButteryMonkey@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I see ads for beans all the time here on Lemmy, they are just disguised as memes.

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    • knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Are you sure the Bud Spencer and Terrace Hill movies haven’t been a ad campaign by big Beans?

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  • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What scares me is the political and military ads I see every so often. Along with other fud type things. Its nuts and kind of a relief to actually see an ad selling a physical product.

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    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh, how about the ads for that insurance company that’s just for military families? Way to bark up the wrong tree. Even if the point is to subtly convince me to join the United States military, that’s still hilariously off-target. Never. gonna. happen.

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      • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        those and even the charity ones kinda grate on me. We need to do stuff for americans who when young nonchalantly signed off on being willing to kill when told to but fuck other americans.

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  • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Idiots live in debt by throwing money on bullshit all the time

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    • Damaskox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Makes me think about the saying “We buy stuff we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don’t like”

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  • DomeGuy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A bit late to the party, but… well…

    If a streaming service has an ad-free tier, the ads shown aren’t really there to sell the things they advertise. Oh, sure, the buyer of the ad wants your money, but they didn’t pay a bunch to show you that ad and the revenue from the ad buy just has be “slightly higher than spam” to be worthwhile.

    "Ad-Supported’ tiers exist to differentiate the higher cost points. Which is why the ads frequently aren’t aligned with natural break points in the video. And why in some cases it’s the same two or three ads shown for every artificial and clumsy break.

    The ads you are seeing exist primarily as an advertisement for the ad-free tier.

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    • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sse Spotify for a proof of this concept. 99% of their ads are specifically to tell you about how cool it is to not have ads.

      Or at least they were. My wife’s been paying a long time i dont know what its doing now.

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  • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean, I’m too stingy to pay for premium but I do buy detergent.

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    • capuccino@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t know what to buy till I got to the store and see the prices.

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      • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Not to sound like your mum but that may be why you don’t have money.

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      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And if the prices are similar, you’re more likely to buy the brand you’ve seen advertised more often. Maybe even if you have to pay more. Or even if you won’t, most other people would.

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  • AskewLord@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They don’t care about you. They care about the people that do have the money.

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    • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Those people would pay for ad-free.

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      • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Some would, but it always surprises me to see how many people don’t appear to be bothered by ads.

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      • AskewLord@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        No they wouldn’t. I’m of those people. I don’t pay for ad free.

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      • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Exactly.

        Annoy you into paying.

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      • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Lol. Plenty of people who have money and don’t.

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  • CovfefeKills@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ads these days are run like internet scams they are there to trick the most vulnerable.

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    • VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I feel like sometimes it has another sinister layer below that as well.

      TV AD: {artificial lip-synced voice-over } hello. i am 53 year old women and i play vita majong for health and vitality…

      The obvious grammar errors, poor sound and graphics. Yet it was cleared for final broadcast. It’s like “I’ll scam you with this poor app, get away with mocking you, and get paid for it hee hee”.

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      • CovfefeKills@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If priesthood attracts pedophiles, LEO attracts mother issues, and management attracts sociopaths, what does marketing attract? Who are the kind of people who make it to decision makers in that world?

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  • Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The platform owner gets paid for letting the advertiser run the ads regardless of what you do.

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  • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because you still have to be inconvenienced for not paying the premium.

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  • Echolynx@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s not just about purchasing, but also reputation, familiarity, etc.

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  • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Especially when it’s for vacation spots, booking sites, or luxury cars. Keep spending that money for no return, guys, because absolutely none of that is happening. (I want to say “not happening anytime soon,” but who am I kidding? I’m already in my upper 30s and I can’t fathom making that kind of money.)

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  • BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nobody cares if you have money or not. It’s about reaching a lot of users and finding one’s that are willing to buy

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    • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I have colleagues who are happy enough to see personalised ads. Sad as it may be, we live in Brave New World and people are happy to take soma.

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  • Bieren@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Credit card debt.

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  • Kushan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I appreciate the sentiment because I also hate ads, but just because you’re not spending your disposable income on premium doesn’t mean you couldn’t theoretically spend it on something else.

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  • morto@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ads from giant corporations aren’t just about selling something to you, but to keep the brand’s name in your head and influence you into having a good psychological image of it. it’s also used as a form of influencing the culture of a population. They do a lot of research into how to more efficiently affect your mind, even if you don’t notice it.

    That’s why I recommend blocking ads and/or moving away from those services (the high seas welcome you)

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    • thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      is this (in the image) really not the normal way of thinking

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  • Gammelfisch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There are plenty of idiots that get sucked into those ads. Well shit, the 2024 US election proves it too.

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  • SparkyBauer44@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is exactly how I feel when a monthly bill goes up as result of missed payment, I missed because I’m laid off and broke. What makes them think turning up the heat will result in me suddenly having money appear?

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  • Alberat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    if anything, they should ADD ads to premium users because they have more money

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  • EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because you are the demographic poor enough to be susceptible to the scams they advertise.

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  • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Do you buy anything, ever? Then you have money, and can be swayed by advertising in terms of what you spend it on.

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    • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I did this exercise a few days ago. It turns out I’m so out of the broad reach of advertisements, that most of the brands and products I buy, I know them from in-shop ads or from early and mid childhood, when I watched way too much TV. I absolutely buy several brands and products for which I’ve never, in my entire life, ever seen an ad on the internet or TV. There, the main selling point is how atrociously evil the parent corporation is. I can’t avoid them entirely, but I can choose the lesser evils.

      Now I’m very anti advertisement and aggressively prune that shit from my life, more than the average person. But it makes me hopeful that a less exploitative life is possible in this cursed timeline.

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