any services/products that:

• massively advertised, in online and out of home;
• send me a SMS or chat without my consent.

and by my experience, somehow underrated products (not massively advertised) are being good and have high quality than the massively advertised ones.

its because they're (underrated products) focus and investing most of money on the quality, than ones focus and highly invested in marketing, to manipulate peoples mind to buy the product.

Youtube on Android TV. Because if you even focus on a video to read what it's about, YT starts it playing, blaring it's audio. If YT is open, it will always start playing some loud audio whether you want it or not. Have to mute the TV to not have it dominate the room.

Mobile games that are being advertised

Some look fun, but because they are advertised, i know its going to be terrible with lots of ads

I have never played, nor do I know anyone who has ever played, Raid: Shadow Legends

Everything that YouTuber / Instagram influencers present.

A huge marketing budget is always a red flag that the product is overpriced garbage. Beats headphones and red bull come to mind. They gotta fund that marketing budget somehow.

Marketing is just a euphemism for propaganda. I avoid all of it as much as possible.

Any of the charities that go door to door, won't take a one time donation and insist on setting up monthly payments forever, and keeps trying to guilt trip you even after you refuse.

If you act like a sleazy salesperson while trying to get me to donate to a supposed good cause, I'm going to assume you have more to gain than the people you're claiming to help.

basically any product advertised just because i'm spiteful like that lmao

Duolingo

Almost anything at this point. It feels like the "first hit is free" modus of drug dealers.

Lol Facebook. It wakes itself after a forced stol and spasms notifications

Bell Canada. They have salespeople doing door to door. They also "partner" with landlords to setup little kiosks with salespeople in the hall of big buildings. Like, you're getting home, pass the RFID lock for tenants only, then there is a Bell representative waiting for you next to the elevator.

But with Bell it's not just their marketing. Once they sell you something they change the terms and/or charge you a different amount than what was agreed.

If you discuss this with one of their salesperson, they will claim that Bell has changed and promise everything will be fine this time if you take a new contract with them. But spoiler, they don't change and are always just more aggressive with their marketing.

Sometimes I feel a bit bad for the salespersons because they are often immigrants or young people that have not been fooled by Bell yet. They are enthusiastic but end up getting told to fuck off by people that have experience with Bell. I'm usually polite but very firm with them.

EDIT: Same with Hello Fresh. I have never used them but since some salesperson knocked on my door to try to sell me their services, I will make sure to never buy anything from them.

Not really things that I can use less. But I really hate when companies that are already fully saturated (or basically have monopolies) really push ads for their shit. Example being shit like Spectrum. While there are now more options in my area for internet (AT&T did start laying fiber in my area like last summer), it really just seems like all the money put into the marketing departments could be saved. Same goes for AAA games.

We keep seeing how all the major fucking companies keep purging staff or dev studios they bought do to sales "not meeting expectations." But it seems like they should be cutting marketing first. Every "gamer" I know is already aware that something was announced with a release date via YT trailers and gaming outlets that were already going to cover it. So pushing so many more millions of dollars into shit really just looks like wasted money.

Since a few months, US marketing has deteriorated, so I boycot as many US products as possible.

Most commercials are predatory, meaning they are a bad value or take advantage of a group of people. Ie. Payday lending, pharmaceuticals, diets. Anything in that class should be avoided. Next is the selling to the wealthy. It may or may not be a good value, but it is only the wealthy that will buy it. Is. Cars, cruises, investment. If you have the money, go for it. Last is public announcements. These may or may not be worthwhile. So generally, if something is advertised, I don't buy it. But I do sing the jingles. 8-)

As another user said, I've been boycotting US products and services. I still use Garmin since I have a watch, HRM, bathroom scale, speed monitor and cadence monitor from them.

I do use them less now since they're insisting on adding "try the new Garmin+ for free" ads everywhere on their platform.

Literally any ad other than a curated endorsement/ad read from a handful of content creators I trust makes me less likely to purchase a product the more I am subjected to it.

In about 2014 or 2015, there was a Mission Impossible movie being advertised with this annoying song that went "Ready or not, here I come" in an annoying nasally voice.

It played ahead of every Youtube video I watched for at least a month.

I will never watch another Mission Impossible movie again, I will not watch another Tom Cruise movie ever again, I don't think I'll watch any new spy or action movies ever again, and I may never watch a movie of any kind ever again.

I'm a vengeful asshole given to doing brain surgery with a back hoe.

youtube used to recommend me dumb phone reviews. good luck using an authenticator dumbass.

Maybe only half related to marketing, but I guess for me its every ISP or mobile service provider that does stuff like having a cheap first year and it increasing after that. Its just so incredibly disingenuous. I don't like being fooled. Have a local one now with transparent pricing even if it is more expensive than switching providers every now and then. Same with VPN, Mullvads pricing so much better compared to NordVPN which is why i also have switched.

Tigera, DataDog, Splunk - spam, harassing phone calls (on personal cell at that), then more spam. GTFO. I even had one of them tell me "We're a legitimate company in this field you know!" and I'm like "Yes, I do know, you're one of just three companies that come to mind when I think of ${x}, but now as a result of your spammy 'marketing' tactics, I will not EVER be doing business with you!"

Anything Google, but it’s not because of their advertising- it’s just because of who they are.

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