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@ShadowJonathan Every so often when I'm driving I'm too distracted by the driving to start skipping the ads for whatever podcast I'm listening to, and then I'll pay attention again and go "Why the fuck am I listening to these?" And promptly finish skipping through almost with a sense of shame for not paying enough attention to do so x3

As a hacker I will employ any and all means to avoid seeing advertisements at all. I go as far as writing user scripts to block website elements that advertise AI features of the same site.

@ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt ...and this is HOW advertisers ended up deciding to learn how to BEAM ADS straight into our DREAMS!! (Futurama reference btw)... they hated how we would try to make their jobs impossible, and good luck avoiding an ad in your dreams

@ShadowJonathan @Natsura ...but an ad is basically "Here is a product/service that is not competitive by itself. It only works because we tell people to buy it"

Btw. the best handymen are the ones with the worst looking cars that can afford to get gigs just by personal refferal.

@ShadowJonathan @Beachbum It is pretty complicated for me. I actually would not mind the occasional static ad on websites. Like advertising an electronics store on a hardware hacking site, a car ad when reading car content (though I know cars exist and I'm not interested), if that helps to pay for you writing what I want to read. What ticks me off is the scripts they try to run, loading large videos and shoving that full screen into my face. That and tracking/targeted ads (they don't even work)