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So I get a sprite battle between Santa Coke and Pepsi Man?

Pepsi Man Theme - Man on the Internet
PEPSIMAN
Hear the cry of carbonation
Echoing throughout the nation
When the world needs hydration
Salvation comes in a can!
Jokes on them because there has to be a product that exists that's for me in the first place to have AI generated ads for it.
I can't imagine the cost.
Pay per view pay and cost is very low. Per click is better but still not a lot. Using AI world mean investing significantly more money.
Seems like it would be a money dump.
It might be the future but it's probably not very effective given how much lower quality the ads become as a result of AI.
The future is no ads.
I’ve been blocking ads for like 30 years. I see so little advertising I feel like an alien.
I wholeheartedly agree, all ads are cancer and should be removed before they spread.
I think the worst thing about them is they're all kinda bad too. No, scratch that, the worst part is that they still work.
Isn't it cool that we let companies commit psychological warfare against us?
Heck, the present is ublock origin!
In an geological scale of time, humanity will very soon cease to exist and this will be undisputed truth
Oh, I wish that were true, but things are not this certain.
I get a sense that people aren't against easy to understand ads - as in, one company produces a concept, markets, publishes the ad, and delivers it to you on behalf of their client.
But people are not going to agree to reading that article, and consenting to 500 advertising partners to track you indefinitely to sell your data points.
All this technology, energy, and money that's behind the surveillance economy, is the cost of turning you into the product.
What we the privacy concerned public would like to say is go make real products to help the world instead.
We really need to teach everyone to use ad blockers. Ads have not existed on "my" internet since the 2000s...
I'm always horrified if I'm on a browser without a blocker, the web just so much more distracting and intense.
Nowadays I'm even starting to find it annoying on a browser with adblock, but without NoScript ! Quite a bit of nonsense disappears when you take the few seconds to only enable the scripts a page actually needs
Also, YouTube specifically is a horrible experience without an extension like UnTrap to turn like 75% of the buttons off.
Well, fuck that.
show your true colors!
Goes to show their trike colors
We are liars, lying is all we do all day, every day, for money
Well thanks for letting me know!
I'm not against ads in principle. The advertisers are paying the bill for stuff I consume. Great.
For that effort, they get a chance at my wallet. And to be honest, making me aware of a business or product is indeed a way to get me interested in what they sell. I do prefer the ads to be relevant instead of always useless.
That being said, it's currently preferable to use a blocker and let the people who don't know how to use blockers subsidize my ad-free ways.
Agreed. I literally use an adblocker on youtube videos that are mostly 1 hour+ 80s/90s nostalgia ad compilations set to vaporwave lol
The issue is that advertizing used to have incentive to be compelling, interesting, memorable, or otherwise just leave you with a good feeling/association with the product they were trying to promote.
Now that every slop corporation is under the impression that they have your attention hostage, they feel justified in shoving literal 3-minute long reels of tiktok videos with MLM chicks screeching about how their makeup is "deadass rizz on god". You can beat your ass it's gonna be blocked from my screen lol
Personalised my foot. When I browsed youtube logged into my google account all I got was generic TV ads for womens hair care products. I am a bald male.
Amazon recommended me a book by Charlie Kirk. I guess the algorithm hasn't got me yet.
I have to say, minority report really did a good job portraying parts of the future.

The world would be so much better if marketing and advertising were outright banned from the internet.
Not just the internet
I honestly can't remember the last time I saw an ad. pi-hole + ublock origin. Never see them at all.
I need to update my pi-hole but I’m terrified to.. I’ve been using it for more than five years and it’s been a hands-off champion; I’m afraid if I updated it’ll get all fucked up and I’ll have to reinstall.
I've had mine probably 5-6 years and I mostly forget about it. I probably update it once a year. It really is a set it and forget it piece of kit.
I was so scared to get it set up… it was my first Linux experience other than an Ubuntu box in 2007 or so. It was soooo much easier than I expected. I have it as my DHCP server tho, so if it goes down, my house has no web. I reeeeeally should update the system and my block lists though…
I'd rather pay for shit and not have ads.
But that’s the thing, they can have you pay for a 2000 dollar refrigerator and still send you ads.
Lmao, the ultimate grift

wow they just really want me to start making a list of every product I will never buy again don't they?
My hate for AI is growing exponentially every day [stonks]
Jokes on them, I don't see ads at all :D
(Ublock Origin, Librewolf, Ironfox, GrapheneOS, Sponsorblock, Grayjay saving the day)

