This post is an ad.
I have never seen an ad in the past 6 years. I use android phone, windows PC and Android TV. Keen to hear when was the last time you saw an AD ?
Submitted 1 year ago by yoz@aussie.zone to technology@lemmy.world
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Ejh3k@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Snapz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
When I don’t see any ads, my friends and I like to celebrate with a refreshing Pepsi!
TheGreatFox@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Don’t forget to use Ridge Shadow VPN when anonymously buying your Pepsi!
bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
ಠ_ಠ
scottywh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I too enjoy a refreshing Pepsi from time to time with a bag of Lay’s™ potato chips… Especially when I watch Mattel’s Barbie with @margotrobbie@lemmy.world.
radix@lemm.ee 1 year ago
🤔🤔🤔
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You have definitely seen ads in Windows, you just don’t realize they’re ads. Windows recommending Edge, OneNote, or OneDrive? All ads. The “recommended apps” section? Ads.
Unless you have gutted Windows 10 and never connected it to the internet, you’re seeing ads from Microsoft.
yoz@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Yep its debloated and connected to internet. Never seen a Microsoft ad
Melco@lemmy.world 1 year ago
[deleted]Damaskox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Stuff I advertise to people are mostly free to use 🤔
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You know there are actually some people that like the services that they pay for and want to let others know about it’s utility, right? Not everyone is a paid shill.
yoz@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Yea…weird. I’ve seen post about kaji paid search engine. I wonder how many people fall for this ?
bluemite@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is quite the stealth ad. It seemed like a genuine post at first.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
You (and I) are the reason the product placement in TV and movies is becoming so profitable. Now quick, move that Coke can and throw the Lexus into MaxoSport™ mode so we can escape the Krill!
waz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I see hundreds of ads every day on almost every hat, T-shirt, shoe, hand bag, bus, bus stop enclosure, train, and car I pass throughout the day.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t want all advertising to disappear. If you are annoyed by businesses having branding you’ve gone too far. I’ve often seen work done and contacted the contractor through their site signage
waz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I understand that advertising and branding works. Some are more annoying than others, but at the end of the day it doesn’t matter if it’s a banner ad in a website, or a vinal decal on a truck. It is still an ad, and it’s effectiveness at influencing our decisions is not none.
The question was “when did you last see an ad?”. I think my answer is fair. All the friggin’ time.
AeroLemming@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The nice thing about subtle branding is that they can’t really lie about their work. A painting company can’t CGI a real-life house. You’ll get what you see and you see what you’ll get.
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“Good morning neighbor! And if I don’t see you, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!”
mechoman444@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The thing is, I’m not against a little ad here and there from time to time. I understand that someone needs to pay for the things we use “for free”.
But what is going on now is just plain old exploitation. Nothing more nothing less.
Zoidberg@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Back when Google started, the idea was to only show discrete text ads on search. Then they started showing image ads and created AdSense which basically shows Google ads on external pages. The real killer was when Google bought doubleclick. Until then Google didn’t do ad tracking but with dclk (which has a tracking cookie) things went downhill fast. Ever wonder why Google ads domains are (or used to be) doubleclick.net? Because changing the domain would make Google lose all those yummy doubleclick tracking cookies.
Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You may not be seeing traditional TV and internet ads but I promise you that you see plenty of marketing every day of your life regardless of how much ad-blocking you try.
MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yup. Go about your day and count how many “Nike Swooshes” you see. Branding is marketing is advertising.
Companion1666@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You sure? What about your mailbox that probably contains promotional emails from your bank or your ISPs?
AeroLemming@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Junk mail should be illegal. Such a waste of resources and it’s absolutely unsolicited harassment. Imagine if those companies faced the same sort of consequences you’d personally get if you kept mailing someone shit constantly.
Companion1666@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Junk e-mail, you mean? I don’t really mind them, and automatically straight up to the Trash. I have filters to do this.
Damaskox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think the only ads I see at home are Steam and my trash email.
One of my friend has YouTube in his TV that pumps ads, another friend watches the old-fashioned TV that also pumps ads, shopping malls have audio and visual ads, bus and train stations have ads…so I guess the last time I saw an ad was 7 hours ago or so.
jeanofthedead@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
One friend of mine pays for IPTV. Paying for ad-riddled cable network streams is wild to me.
Candybar121@lemmy.world 1 year ago
[deleted]Damaskox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Cool. I don’t mind that popup though.
MrJ199414@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Whenever I turn my VPN off to check my bank account and forget to turn it back on.
yoz@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I use nextdns with any VPN. So when I turnoff VPN, nextdns still stays active and blocks ads. Try it, hope it works.
MrJ199414@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Thank you finally got around to setting it up on my phone.
shortwavesurfer@monero.town 1 year ago
Honestly, that’s a good question. I use a DNS level ad block and that takes care of the vast majority of them. I also use a lot of either open source software which does not contain ads or front ends to services that do contain ads that strip the ads out like newpipe.
valkyre09@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I recently wanted to watch a TV show that I could only find on Discovery Plus.
Signed up, started playing and an advert starts playing!?!? When did it become normal to serve ads for a service you’re already paying for.
Anyway I cancelled and pirated the show
jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 year ago
When did it become normal to serve ads for a service you’re already paying for.
Since cable television? 🤔
yoz@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Lol nooiiiceee
yoz@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Same
jet@hackertalks.com 1 year ago
Every day at the subway station. Huge TV is playing ads
kescusay@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Depends on what you mean by “seeing an ad.” An intrusive video ad on YouTube or another video site, or a bunch of annoying pop-ups? Nope, haven’t seen one in years, either. Non-intrusive banner ads on sites I’ve specifically whitelisted in order to help them financially because I like their content and services? Yeah, seen those, but I don’t mind them, and I never whitelist sites where the ads are intrusive.
AA5B@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Five minutes ago, here on Lemmy.
WHATS THE BEST ______ You found on ____?
atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Every single time I log in and windows wants to upgrade from windows 10 to windows 11. Every single time I have to use edge at work. I’ve got a pihole and DNS as blocking and so on. I don’t generally see ads on my phone or personal computer. The switch shows me new upcoming games etc. So does th PS5. Plus I get flyers in the mail and see billboards etc.
aubertlone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I applaud you setting up a pi-hole…
But please bro, you’ve probably seen hundreds of ads this month if not more. Not everything is listed on the pi hole ad lists.
And not every ad classifies itself as an “ad”.
yoz@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I never said I am using pi-hole. I use nextdns on my router and all open source adblocking apps on my devices. Windows and android are fully debloated.
aubertlone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I was wrong about the pi hole. The other point stands.
DingoBilly@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ahh so you’re oblivious and don’t realize you’re watching ads. Not sure if that’s a good thing.
I run ad blockers on everything, at a software and network level and still see ads from time to time. Let alone my friend posting on social media how great a product is they’re sponsored to promote which is an ad.
You can block a majority of them but it’s impossible to block them all, and you’re delirious if you think you have unless you severely restrict your interactions with Internet-connected services or have spent days tinkering/blocking out most content.
Uvine_Umbra@partizle.com 1 year ago
Desktop? On my WinPC as I was disabling them the other day.
And steam advertising it’s next big sale.
Oh and shilling in YouTube videos for their own brand
And Google going “please login into this website using me!!!”
Yeah no, they don’t take up my time anymore but they’re definitely still there
(Android phone, Linux personal PC/ laptop, Windows remote work PC (camera & mic unreliable)
Got_Bent@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Laptop/desktop, almost never
Phone, getting better, but don’t quite have it sorted, especially since I’m constantly playing browser bingo and situations like links from Lemmy frequently get me watching cancerous websites because I’ve got the wrong browser that worked last week but not today set as default.
I know I’m not supposed to use it because something something the owner is a terrible person, but Brave has been the most effective YouTube browser since vanced died and I’m not savvy enough to get revanced.
Darkenfolk@dormi.zone 1 year ago
On the revanced topic, if you search something like revanced github it should show up as the first link, you need the revanced patcher.
If you actually meant that you didn’t have a clue how to use it, this is how:
- get the latest patcher from github
- find the corresponding YouTube version (believe it’s the same as the patcher version, I’m probably wrong though)
- install the YouTube version you found
- run patcher, go to the patcher tab and select YouTube.
- patch
- and you should be done
It’s a bit bothersome compared with vanced but doable.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 year ago
When I went to see a movie and because I’ve not done that in a while I forget that you don’t actually have to turn up at the time that is on the ticket. You turn up about 20 minutes later so you don’t have to look at car ads.
OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I see ads on my phone every day because I don’t know how to block ads on the YouTube app and I still want their algorithm recommendations so I don’t use the other apps that pull from YouTube.
Kuro@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Revanced
hellequin67@lemm.ee 1 year ago
On android Revanced is best option, or stream via website on a browser with adblock.
If you don’t care about the algorithm the NewPipe or LibreTube are great.
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
I’m using Brave if I want to watch ad-free youtube videos on my phone. You can also install an ad-blocker on mobile Safari to achieve the same result.
digger@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Only on TV and radio. And in magazines and movies and at ball games, on buses and milk cartons and T-shirts and bananas and written on the sky. But not on my personal devices. No, sir-ee!
joel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I use sync for lemmy, so every time I go on lemmy I see ads. Also when YouTubers have in- video sponsor ads. I skip them but it’s still an inconvenience. Same for podcasts
ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I use Sync with a pi-hole and don’t think I’ve seen any ads.
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Probably a few hours ago.
AnokLola@lemm.ee 1 year ago
No adds on my Android phone, Linux and windows hehe
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Today. I don’t block ads on the sites I use or read but don’t otherwise pay for.
ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Today. The entire city is filled with billboards and posters.
ioslife@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
I really wish billboards were illegal
beefsack@lemmy.world 1 year ago
In some cities they are, and it’s a beautiful thing. An example is Canberra, Australia.
ozymandias117@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I moved from somewhere with billboards all over the place to somewhere signs over 6 feet tall are illegal
It’s breathtaking nicer
Rooty@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They can be a bit too much, but thanks to a billboard I found out that one of my favorite bands (Morcheeba) are playing in my city.
Petter1@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Time for AR where you can replace all those puplic ads with, umm, nsfw art, for example.
yoz@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Yea I meant on your personal device like phones , PC etc
ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
No idea then. I use adblock on all of my devices, but sometimes things slip through. And I sometimes click on one of those SEO fake “articles” that are really just ads when I’m searching for something.