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@Uair @ShadowJonathan
I hate making everything a generational thing just as much as I hate ads.

@ShadowJonathan I guess I'm doing it right, when the advertisers are already actively attacking all the ways I avoid watching the ads, including attempts at blocking ad blockers or just trying to win me over with sad pleas.

@ShadowJonathan sponsorblock and ublock is my answer to ads

@ShadowJonathan you can eliminate almost all of them with some effort but it really annoys me that you can't do anything about the ones in the bus (stops) and the train (stations), apart from moving

which means either to a cool place like Skåne that has actively taken action to prevent advertising in public spaces; or to the middle of nowhere where advertising is not profitable, like in rural Scotland where bus stops are just cute wee wooden shelters and billboards are a foreign concept

And for most ppl neither is really an option:/

@ShadowJonathan It it also a sign that the product is overpriced as you (the customer) have to pay not only the manufacturing costs and the salary of the seller but also all the marketing expenses you never asked for

@Takiro @ShadowJonathan

There are generational differences. My parents were Boomers, and the Vietnam War defined their lives. Gen X were latch key kids. That was a defining feature of our generation.

Yeah, putting hard edges around the years defining generations is dumb, but there really are giant cultural experiences that only exist for one generation.

In case you didn't read the whole thread--I woke up to an empty house, made my food while I drank my coffee and read the paper. And then got my own self off to school. At age seven. In second fucking grade. Most parents won't even let their kids play outside any more. I only saw mine for 45 minutes at dinnertime when we were forced to pretend to be a family.

Gen X raised themselves, and as far as I know that was unique in history. There really are broad generational differences in society. If your parents tried to raise you the way mine did me, DYFUS would have taken you from them.

@CazzPhoenix @ShadowJonathan

Seriously. I was already living on 4 hours of sleep a night, and starting on Stephen King.

I'm a hyperlexical autistic person. And, not to front, a genius. I was National Merit if you know what that is.

@ShadowJonathan ban advertisements

@Takiro @Uair @ShadowJonathan generational segmentation is a marketing tactic in itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_segmentation

@ShadowJonathan
I've never identified so closely to a character from a book as I have with Case Pollard of William Gibson's Pattern Recognition - a character defined by her "allergy" to advertising.

@ShadowJonathan sounds like me

@helenaisvibing @ShadowJonathan Spray. Paint.

@ShadowJonathan If I cannot suppress the ads, I do not use the service, plain and simple.

@Uair@autistics.life @ShadowJonathan
I also had a terrible life 30 years ago and even back then I experienced every generation shitting on each other and what I learned, no matter what events shaped them, is that every generation was equally stupid in their own rights. Don't use your own trauma as an excuse to talk shit about a whole group of people. Many of us went trough shit of our own. It's not a contest about who had the most fucked up life or most hours in therapy.

@ShadowJonathan
The only thing worse than bad attention is no attention at all. (somebody once said).

Those ad companies really have boundry issues.

@ShadowJonathan I have literally stopped watching youtube outright for a few days whenever their ads started getting through ublock and I couldn't find a way to bypass it in a couple of minutes.

I checked back a week later and it was back to normal. But I will absolutely stop using your service rather than be advertised to.

@helenaisvibing@tech.lgbt @ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt that's when you get some slaps and cover up the ads

@ShadowJonathan whenever companies call my personal cell phone for a cold call they go in my email discard filter for eternity

@ShadowJonathan big same.

@ShadowJonathan Thanks for posting this image from @dragongirlteeth. Reflects with uncanny accuracy my own attitude about advertising. (Especially ads that move or make noise.) I haven't yet gone so far as moving to Tristan da Cunha to avoid ads, but with multiple ad-blockers, blinders, and a bit /etc/hosts denial file I'm doing pretty well these days. I can't even imagine how people function on the internet without blockers.
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