The absolute worst is when people say “You can’t really blame them. That’s just how things are.”
Of course I can blame them! They did testing on focus groups to figure out just how intrusive they could be before an unacceptable percentage of people got mad. If they miscalculated and overreached and upset me, then my being upset is perfectly valid. Also true if they knew someone would be upset and considered it acceptable losses. This applies to all sorts of things and not just advertising.
The idea that if an action someone takes is rationally understandable then you aren’t allowed to be mad about it is so toxic and I hate it. I can understand why they do intrusive ads, they like money. But it affects me against my will and I hold them responsible, as I should.
I have the same relationship with ads as the OP, and even deeper hatred for fingerprinting to the point there is a lot of friction in my daily tech usage. Lot of stuff breaks, I have to fill captchas often, maintain self-hosted tech, get wrong time zone and language I don’t know on websites, etc. (On one hand it’s a boon, because it is keeping my pretty serious internet addiction in check and it has kept me away from most social networks and short form content).
They have just installed this annoying kind of LCD slideshow adds that are a long screen alongside underground line, and I’m actively trying to avoid and not look at it, same with any IRL ads. I really hope we’ll get some FOSS smartglases tech eventually, just so I can have an IRL adblock that replaces adds around you that I’ve seen a demo for.
But, I have seen (single instances) of adds over the year that I appreciated, because it’s more a clever art than an add. But 99% of adds isn’t that, and it’s just annoying intrusive attention grabbing slop designed to burn into your mind. Fuck that.
The absolute worst is when people say “You can’t really blame them. That’s just how things are.”
Of course I can blame them! They did testing on focus groups to figure out just how intrusive they could be before an unacceptable percentage of people got mad. If they miscalculated and overreached and upset me, then my being upset is perfectly valid. Also true if they knew someone would be upset and considered it acceptable losses. This applies to all sorts of things and not just advertising.
The idea that if an action someone takes is rationally understandable then you aren’t allowed to be mad about it is so toxic and I hate it. I can understand why they do intrusive ads, they like money. But it affects me against my will and I hold them responsible, as I should.
Exactly!
I have the same relationship with ads as the OP, and even deeper hatred for fingerprinting to the point there is a lot of friction in my daily tech usage. Lot of stuff breaks, I have to fill captchas often, maintain self-hosted tech, get wrong time zone and language I don’t know on websites, etc. (On one hand it’s a boon, because it is keeping my pretty serious internet addiction in check and it has kept me away from most social networks and short form content).
They have just installed this annoying kind of LCD slideshow adds that are a long screen alongside underground line, and I’m actively trying to avoid and not look at it, same with any IRL ads. I really hope we’ll get some FOSS smartglases tech eventually, just so I can have an IRL adblock that replaces adds around you that I’ve seen a demo for.
But, I have seen (single instances) of adds over the year that I appreciated, because it’s more a clever art than an add. But 99% of adds isn’t that, and it’s just annoying intrusive attention grabbing slop designed to burn into your mind. Fuck that.