The only place where I sorta accept them are in podcasts. I will let them play on websites I support, but I do so in the background of a separate browser that I have on mute.
The only reason I allow them in podcasts is because I only listen to podcasts by people who have integrity and only recommend items they themselves would use.
Definitely. Most annoying are the creep-browser ads for sites I already subscribe to!
No faster way to get me to unsub.
Or to back-click and go elsewhere.
But fuck me, resistance is probably futile for anyone who goes online, goes outside, consumes oxygen, buys anything or in any way consumes media. The smarter among us can kick and scream and resist all we want but we’re still just consumers, like it or not.
Oddly, this is the one that really bugs me. I mean, there is nothing else to do while pumping gas, so watching a commercial shouldn’t be a problem. Pumping gas is pretty boring.
I guess I hate it because the REALLY have a captured audience while you have to stand there.
Just wait until electronic billboards detect your approach from your phone, and change content to target you.
I don’t care about ads before movies and I think it’s weird that other people would actually use it as a reason to not even go to the movies! The ads there, unlike on TV, don’t encroach on the film at all. If a movie is supposed to begin at 5:00, then the minute it hits 5:00 the trailers start. Any ads are run before the posted start time. It’s not taking anything away form the movie or making it start later so… who cares?
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I dunno, I have to say advertising doesn’t really bother me, I just tend not to notice it.
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Mostly the sleazy kind that hide malware – and I’ve got an adblocker for that. If I’m watching TV, I view “ads” as the time to get up, go to the bathroom, get a snack, feed the cat, etc.
Now, there HAS been talk in the NHL about possibly adding advertising patches to jerseys. While I highly doubt it’ll happen (because jersey sales make for HUGE revenue and no one would buy them if they resembled NASCAR jumpsuits), that would piss me off, because it’d be hella ugly. I don’t mind the ads along the boards, but the ones on the ice are a wee bit much. It doesn’t bother me really, but I think it’s pushing it.
Movies – the ads are annoying, but I like seeing the previews. I don’t consider those “ads” per se.
Otherwise, I really don’t give a shit. (I do hate though that commercials are louder than the program. What’s up with that?)
I stopped listening to commercial radio years ago. I would rather pay for a subscription to NPR or local independent radio. Also, I only watch TV on Netflix. So, no commercials there.
On websites I usually don’t even notice the ads… with one exception. What I despise are those ads in my email account that flash over and over. But I refuse to pay to get rid of them. Inconsistent, maybe, but in the case of NPR and Netflix it feels voluntary. In the case of my email provider it feels like extortion.
More often than not, when I’m on my commute or running errands the advertisements I see or hear do not register with me on a conscious level. They’re certainly there and I am convinced they influence some of my decisions but I just don’t notice them. That said, I do get annoyed at seeing commercials before the movie starts. The first time I remember that happening was when I went and saw Teen Wolf in 1985 and the theater showed a Dr. Pepper commercial featuring Godzilla. I do get annoyed when I hear the same ad several times in a row. This usually happens online.
I remember when I was working as a projectionist at United Artists in the late 1980s when they first told us to put a commercial in with the trailers. It was a Coke commercial.
It was an innocent little thing, and seemed so weird and out of place, but it was a sign of things to come.
These days I don’t go to the movies (something about showing hundreds of films takes the magic of the cinema out of you), but I imagine that the show probably doesn’t get started until 15min after showtime.
My advertising gripes are in line with others’: Internet ads suck, especially because they keep repeating the same ones. Video ads suck because some news sites make you watch a 30 second ad to see a 20 second video. Recently I saw one that was a 1:30 ad for about 40 seconds of news. I dumped out of that one.
Can’t stand broadcast radio or TV because of the huge number of ads. It’s worth paying to not have to listen to that crap.
Just bought a call blocker gadget that allows me to hit a “block now” button that disconnects robocallers and remembers their number, so next time it just hangs up on them. Sure, they can fake their numbers, but it is really satisfying to smack that button.
Most movies are just ads for the next new toy, video game, happy-meal, car, softdrink or whatever anyway.
If you think you’re not paying to watch ads, you’re kidding yourself.
I quite enjoy deconstructing adverts, as I like to to think Roland Barthes might, slouched critically, covered in Dorito crumbs.
And cinema adverts take things to such a thrilling level of super-volume brashness my skin prickles with cringeing admiration.
Correct, but I’d like to choose the ads I pay for - I do most other places. If I’ve forked over ten bucks to sit in a seat for two hours, I am not meat to be marketed to, especially in the form of saccharine “infotainment.”
Not all movies are feature-length ads. Most good dramas may have some product placement, but no secondary marketing a la collectibles, toys, clothing lines, etc.
An excellent and highly-recommended practice, second only to learning to completely tune them out.
However, don’t imagine you’re accomplishing anything. It’s like spitting at the bullets instead of shooting back at the sniper.
I hate ads and the gradually worsening way they tarnish so much of life.
Radio, I no longer listen to.
Television, I watch with Mrs. Napier because it’s “something we do together”, but never on my own, mostly because of the ads. Videos, and movie theaters, likewise.
Gas stations that play ads when the pump starts running? I turn it off immediately and drive to another. I can’t in good conscience reward that kind of thing, but I can remember not to return. So far it has only been Valero.
Online it is hard to avoid in some places. SDMB fortunately lets us pay for straightforward access - how is this not the best bargain out there??? Sites that put ads over buttons I need to press I typically leave even if I needed something there.
Just about the only place it is not obnoxious to me is if I buy a special interest magazine, be it about photography or astronomy or the keeping of lizards. In these, the special interest targeted ads are themselves interesting, or at least enough are.
The weird thing is that I am certainly a consumer and I certainly like buying stuff. I actually like to hear about things I really might like to buy. What ads have been teaching me, though, is to distrust my vague anticipation that I will like having more stuff. It’s so tawdry, they’re driving me away!
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What in the world are they thinking in the iTunes store? It’s such a riot of visual confusion that I get disoriented. I actually open this software specifically for buying their music, I’m standing there (so to speak) with a fistful of greenbacks, and it’s like a bunch of hustlers descend on me and scare me away. Jesus!
You never visited Ecks Ten dot com, did you? Like a carnival midway. Biff bam boom popups, redirection, changing pages… totally whack. Like an online Billy Mays sideshow.
Anyone remember Heinlein’s “Podkayne of Mars”? She gets into a taxi and there’s a holographic ad in the cab beside her, yelling at her.
I figure that day is not far off…
And yes I detest ads, love adblocker, and hate all the in-your-face selling. Billboards and simple signs I can ignore, mostly, but anything flickering or noisy or garish makes me want to crawl back in my quiet cave…
I guess I have a high tolerance. Part of that comes from my interest in advertising. I used to enjoy receiving junk mail and studying it.
But lately, it seems like ads on web sites are out of control. So many sites have autoplaying video ads, pop-ups, and hover ads. Ads with no “x” or that appear a few seconds after you start reading an article. The worst offenders seem to be News sites, web version of print and tv media. I assume that since they were late embracing the web they were also late in figuring out effective monetization. They have some of the most old-school annoying and obtrusive advertising.
So, I just now started using Adblock. I just couldn’t take it anymore.
As far as other things go, I rarely watch live tv. The most annoying ads I see are on Hulu, but I tolerate the trade-off. I only listen to one radio station and most of the ads are done by DJs I somewhat know in real life and are for local businesses. So they are fairly tolerable.
Ehhh, I’ve learned to live with all of it, for the most part. I definitely don’t let it get to me like some of you guys here do. What I do take issue with, and quite strongly at that, is T.V. commercials that suddenly, without any manipulation from me, get much, much louder than the program or commercial before it. That is obtrusive and I feel like it’s done intentionally, because it happens SO often.