Post #2843488
2026-05-25 19:26 UTC
@lain@lain.com @grillchen@brot.eus @sofia@chaos.social the problem with advertising is not an aesthetic trashiness, it's that the advertiser's main incentive is to manipulate me into spending resources I otherwise wouldn't
this goal is the same whether or not the ad "is hitting"
I spend so much effort avoiding ads not because I think they don't work on me, but because nobody is immune to propaganda
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@lain@lain.com 2026-05-25 19:28
@eal@shinonome.technology @grillchen@brot.eus @sofia@chaos.social i can't see this as true. there's plenty of cases where i was quite happy about learning of something i'm interested in, where i didn't know it existed before.