Today. The entire city is filled with billboards and posters.
I really wish billboards were illegal
In some cities they are, and it’s a beautiful thing. An example is Canberra, Australia.
I live near Seattle Washington and there are very few here. Pretty much only on Indian Reservations. But last summer I was on a road trip that took me through Salt Lake City Utah and there were SO MANY BILLBOARDS along the interstate there. I can’t believe the people put up with it.
Wow I did not notice that this was the case. Gotta appreciate this a bit the next time I visit.
It’s literally what Times Square in Manhattan is known for.
There are godamne billbords there especialy past the airport and on bus stops etc
I moved from somewhere with billboards all over the place to somewhere signs over 6 feet tall are illegal
It’s breathtakingly nicer
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.
Time for AR where you can replace all those puplic ads with, umm, nsfw art, for example.
Yea I meant on your personal device like phones , PC etc
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.
I’ve been trying to reach you about your car insurance.
This post is an ad.
Plot twist: everything and every1 is an ad
Your mom is an ad
…for condoms
Got 'em!
When I don’t see any ads, my friends and I like to celebrate with a refreshing Pepsi!
Don’t forget to use Ridge Shadow VPN when anonymously buying your Pepsi!
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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.
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You are seeing ads but you might not realize it. Half of the posts on Lemmy and reddit are bots masquerading as users promoting one product or another. On Lemmy its typically “users” taking every opportunity to tell the world how happy they are to be paying customers of tailscale, Kaji or Cloudflair products.
Unfortunately, native ads exist and they are a blight on social media.
Stuff I advertise to people are mostly free to use 🤔
Nothing in this world at all is Free. Nothing. You are paying one way or the other. Often if you pay for a digital product outright the cost is lower them the alternative.
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.
Yea…weird. I’ve seen post about kaji paid search engine. I wonder how many people fall for this ?
Yes Lemmy is full of “users” taking every opportunity to tell people how much they love Kaki and how they are happy paid customers.
Typically you will see these type of posts at the bottom of any technology related thread.
These aren’t organic comments they are coming from an ad agency.
I guess i am from an ad agency as well. Damn, i did not even know i get paid for it.
A few are certainly real. The point of the bots is to affect the overall sentiment of posts and influence people into organically participating and promoting their products.
This is quite the stealth ad. It seemed like a genuine post at first.
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.
Hell, my neighbor just had his house painted so I literally can’t walk around the block without seeing an yard sign advertising a painting company.
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
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.
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. Of course, over-the-top flashy branding is still super fucking annoying.
“Good morning neighbor! And if I don’t see you, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!”
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!
Edit to answer your question: I watched the trailer for Invincible Season 2 last night. That was the last ad I watched.
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.
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.
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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.
Yep its debloated and connected to internet. Never seen a Microsoft ad
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.
Yup. Go about your day and count how many “Nike Swooshes” you see. Branding is marketing is advertising.
You sure? What about your mailbox that probably contains promotional emails from your bank or your ISPs?
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.
Junk e-mail, you mean? I don’t really mind them, and automatically straight up to the Trash. I have filters to do this.
I rarely receive a physical mail on my mailbox, except my electricity and water bills every month.
I mean physical mail. 98% of the mail we receive is junk and ads and there’s nothing we can do about it. Spam email goes straight to the spam folder automatically, it’s a non-issue.
Whenever I turn my VPN off to check my bank account and forget to turn it back on.
I use nextdns with any VPN. So when I turnoff VPN, nextdns still stays active and blocks ads. Try it, hope it works.
You can probably set private dns in your router or in your phone settings
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.
One friend of mine pays for IPTV. Paying for ad-riddled cable network streams is wild to me.
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Cool. I don’t mind that popup though.
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.
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
When did it become normal to serve ads for a service you’re already paying for.
Since cable television? 🤔
Lol nooiiiceee
Same
Every day at the subway station. Huge TV is playing ads.
I look up my windows, and see ads on buildings, also again huge TVs playing ads.
In my elevator there is an announcement for the building Christmas party, that’s an ad, it’s relevant to my immediate interests but it’s still an advertisement.
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.
