• FourteenEyes [he/him]
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    6 месяцев назад

    Slay the Spire developer Casey Yano reflected on the natural human behavior that is avoiding ads like the plague. "From a very young age, when I saw an advertisement I was like, 'why isn't AdBlock blocking this?'" said Yano.

    I think this is the prevailing attitude among anyone young with any amount of technical know-how. Ads are incredibly fucking obnoxious.

    • invo_rt [he/him]
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      6 месяцев назад

      Huge agree. If ads weren't so invasive or literal malware, I would probably still view them, but they couldn't leave well enough alone so I'm waging my own Butlerian Jihad against advertising in my life using networking hardware.

    • GoebbelsDeezNuts [any]
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      6 месяцев назад

      I kept cable so I could watch sports, at some point I gave up sports because of the ads. Then I gave up cable.

      I've installed a pihole, and pirate everything mostly because I do not want to see ads. The being free part is just a bonus.

      If your gas pumps play ads while I'm filling up, I will not come back.

      If you must have advertisements I will simply go without. Youtube is trying very hard to be next on the chopping block.

      I don't understand how companies don't get this about the younger generations, we'll twist ourselves into pretzels to avoid ads.