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submitted 6 months ago by snownyte@kbin.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

This is a very softball question, it is not being asked for some legitimate purpose.

It's mainly asked as a platform of sorts that serves by being asked so people can answer in the form of reasons for why we loathe advertisements and commercials in general.

My answer is that we don't like to be marketed to, especially from companies of which we don't have a single ounce of interest of doing business with. "BUY! SUBSCRIBE! BUY! SUBSCRIBE!" is regularly chanted loudly from any company that pours millions down the drain to make 10 second ~ 1 minute ads of dramatic theatrics of a product we can live without.

And a lot of their 'research' or lack thereof, of their product is obviously fabricated to get people to buy. That's the primary goal, is to get people to buy or subscribe by any means necessary.

Makes me wonder a lot of the time, why we aren't attacking marketers and salespeople more often. I swear if we all focused on a week or a month by breaking the kneecaps of any salesperson or marketing agent while tormenting their families through harassment because of all of the years they've harassed us and fucked with us by relentless advertising.

I bet this shit would slow the fuck down.

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[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Money could be spent on SEO and useful visibility. Instead it is spam, and wastes my time and resources. It has no value to me. I have never and will never purchase anything advertised to me. I view any product with an advertising budget as massively inferior to any other in the same space. Any consumer product in the present market only has 20%-30% of the cost the end user pays going to the company making the thing. If that company is spending half of that money to advertise, the product manufacturing, packaging, and logistics costs them ~5%-7% of what I am paying. The other companies in the sane space can put ~15%-25% of what I'm paying into the product. So simply avoiding anyone that advertises results in a potential of three to five times more product for my money. Any company than needs to spam market to the world is doing so because they can't survive on their reputation or merits.

Plus, my data is a fundamental part of my person. Owning a part of me is the latest form of theft of autonomy. I prefer to call it digital slavery, and those collecting and selling personal data as digital stalkers. It is a means to manipulate and alter access to information. This isn't 1999; no one is using this for banner ads in a trillion dollar industry. Search engines and the internet are no longer deterministic, you have no way of checking and balancing the echo chamber you exist within.

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