You can’t come up with $148.39 once a year?
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?
Submitted 1 month ago by capuccino@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 month ago
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s for premium what?
Is it for my car to accelerate faster? I saw Mercedes listed that at Monthly: $90/month Yearly: $900/year Lifetime of Vehicle: $2,950
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 month ago
YouTube premium.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I hate ads so much that I even blocked ads back in the day on NetZero to get free internet ad free. I have been blocking since Internet 1.0.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
The sad reality: All that means is that the corporations don’t care about you. But the ad sellers can still use you to pad views.
mitrosus@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
It is a way to enshittify the free version, as an ad for the premium version of the same.
pie_enjoyer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ads are profitable, so they will continue, period
Jhex@lemmy.world 1 month ago
says the people profitting from selling ad space
pie_enjoyer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Companies aren’t stupid, they wouldn’t dump money on ads without effects.
ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t have enough lifetime to expend on watching ads. Too time expensive
kepix@lemmy.world 1 month ago
the advertisement doesnt suppose to be some out of reach thing. more than likely targeted. also if you cant block ads or use modded apps you might be on apple, which means you probably will buy it.
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
They don’t care, they get paid to show you the ads. And the people spending to get the ads delivered aren’t given very good demographics or proof that the people seeing them are good candidates, all they know is that people are watching them and that some of those people click through.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I have always wanted to meet somebody that’s clicked a targeted ad and bought the product. Even if I got an ad for something I wanted and it was a good price, I’d find a way to navigate around clicking it directly.
zerobot@lemmy.wtf 1 month ago
they just want you to look at it
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 month ago
You’re not the target audience.
pelley@lemmy.world 1 month ago
All I ever see are political ads and geriatric pharmaceutical ads.
razen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ads make people believe that you need the product and not wish to have it. They show it so much that the brain literally thinks that it is a need and has to be bought even if it takess you go in debt.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 1 month ago
What you can, or cannot afford is irrelevant. You’re a pair of eyeballs and they’re paid for eyeballs.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
They think you are stupid.
Enough people are.
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 month ago
Don’t have money? Time to increase your debt!!
Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You see ads?
CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Because while a lot of ads that we see are targeted in some fashion to us specifically most are just sprayed out into the world relatively haphazardly. They know that 99% of people who see that specific ad aren’t going to go and buy their product right then but if you see that ad over and over its the first thing you’ll think of when you think about any given good or sevice
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
If you aren’t buying premium, maybe you are instead saving money to buy some of the things that are advertised to you. I have plenty of disposable income and could probably buy some of the things I see in ads; I don’t like wasting money on things I don’t need, so I buy neither YT Premium nor most things that I see in ads.
Also, if some of the things that are advertised to you are things you do occasionally need (like food), then your argument likewise doesn’t work.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What makes you think advertisers are selling to you? They are selling YOU to the next advertisers. As in, they are selling your data!
MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 1 month ago
On the other hand, when the “product” is a F2P mobile game that also sustains itself through ads that are mostly F2P mobile games that sustain themselves through ads…
like, who is paying for all this?!?
(Turns out some of the games in ads are actually P2W. I’ve also decided to never play another F2P mobile game and start buying some again instead.)
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 month ago
if its on a browser, you can just block it with adblockers.
TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
People who make financial decisions also tend to be poor. It’s worse than that, those types of ads prey on the vulnerable.
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Fantastic point
bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 1 month ago
The advertisers are doing the same math as the spam calls and emails. Basically if one in 10,000 bite, that’s all they need to stay in business. Ads, and spam both target stupid desperate easily manipulated people. The fact that you also see it, and show distain in now way affects their business model.