Everything is an ad

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It's sad that the biggest industry is promotion - not even the products itself, just the promotion of them. I mean I get it, everyone wants what they make to get in front of as many people as possible - hell, if I wanna be deconstructive, me posting this is an advertisement for my opinion that I'm now sharing with others in the hopes of getting them to accept my opinion - but when it's all big megacorps and scams (or worse, megacorp scams) then it's hell.

I don't want War Thunder (even if the players leaking military secrets will never not be funny), I don't want GamerSupps, I don't want ExpressVPN, I don't want HelloFresh, I don't want BetterHelp, I don't want SquareSpace (voms profusely). If you wanna advertise something I'm interested in, advertise an indie game, advertise a cool picture you drew, advertise your interest in Anomalocarids. BE INTERESTING, NOT JUST A BILLBOARD!!!

Here's a fun example, this forum post reply brought to you by this cool image I found five minutes ago:


(A Sky Full Of Stars, 2024 by POSTWOOK)

Exactly. Imagine having near-unlimited information transmission and using it to advertise useless products incessantly.

This actually made me realize something

We genuinely, unironically need to come up with an alternative for supporting community projects like SpaceHey. If it gets too expensive to run off donations and merch alone, they may be tempted to start implementing ads. Once those come in, the claws of the CorpoNet are upon us and it's a ticking clock until we have to find a new website that hasn't been reshaped to fit a corporate board's quarterly reports and everything we loved about SpaceHey becomes a lifeless husk of what it once was.

The alternative has to be something that can't be abused for greed or manipulation or privacy invasion, but for SpaceHey and the IndieNet to be viable - in a way that is expressly ANTI-corporate, ANTI-advertising, and pro-HUMAN - if we want to protect our corner of the web from becoming an algorithmic slopfest of ads and subscriptions, then we need to come up with something. Maybe people opting in (key word here is IN, don't make it mandatory or default) to have some of their bandwidth used to help run the servers or something. 

This is why I use Adblocker on my browser, whenever I'm online via my Laptop :)

I rarely see ads that much.

I'm not terribly bothered about seeing ads embedded in web pages, what bothers me is the data collection and the annoying video ads on YouTube and so on, it just got to be too much.

It's been brought up here before that it would be good to find another way to fund web content as an alternative to advertising, but it's difficult to think of something suitable.

anyone remember when logan was advertising lunchly when his wife was in labour T^T

I don't necessarily have a problem with ads, on paper that is. The biggest problem is the lack of control they give you.

Personally, if be way more accepting of ads, if they allowed you to chose the exact kinds of ads that you want to see.

Like if I could go to my Google Ads Control App (Or whatever the fuck they call it) and specifically ask for Video Game ads, like the newest Sonic Or Mario game, then the ads their serving are actually serving me, not the other way around.

Their absolute reliance on algorithms, instead of giving you control over the ads you see, is testiment to the fact they really don't care about what you want

(Let me specify that I mean specific requests for ads. They have the generic "video game" selection in their Ad Controls, but I'm asking for specific things to be advertised.)

I’ve definitely become accustomed to the ads (which is probably not a good thing) so they dont bother me as much as they should. When I start seeing them multiple times in a row though…that’s when I start to go crazy. Like they started doing 3 minute ads on YouTube and that is just too much…capitalism is taking over and its hella frustrating.

even just got a snapchat from gymshark this morning, like how is a brand sending DM's as ads. so tempted to go back to having a blackberry x(

Get firefox and add ublock origin + sponsorblock. it wont completely save you but it will make it bareable

ongg anyway im so hungry but thanks to hellofresh i dont have to be