Actively hostile relationship with advertising

Describes defensive relationship with advertising.

Smh. Actively hostile relationship is like throwing bricks at their offices, or, at the very least, calling their support and bogging them down with stupid questions with no intention to buy their services. Or... spreading information on why you shouldn't use their services.

I'll start: Ground News is a site based on the stupidest idea ever and it's use is actively dangerous for the society. It steals traffic from real news sources doing actual grunt work, and then has the gall to ask you to pay them for it. It teaches you to turn off your critical thinking and to just trust them on rating news sources biases which they pull from... where, exactly? Ah yeah, straight out of their arses. But worst of all, they put left and right outlets on equal pedestals as if both have the same merit, promoting this weird centrist position of half left ideas and half literal fascism. American fascism, to be precise, because those ratings don't even make sense outside of USA. For example, they've rated Al Jazeera, the news agency wholly owned by an authoritarian monarchy state, as "left leaning". Like, what?

Some people like to say that nobody's immune to advertising. Maybe so, but there are definitely some of us who aren't as affected by it. When most ads you see are for things you'd never buy anyway, all the crap kind of blends together.

For me, no amount of fast food ads, car ads, vacation ads, etc. are going to have any meaningful effect. I already don't buy fast food, don't purchase new cars (and if I'm shopping used, there are certain criteria that matter far more than a brand or dealership), and am way too poor to take a vacation. Yet, the ads persist.

Even if I weren't muting and skipping them at every chance, you can't get blood from a stone. End stage capitalism, man. Can't spend money I don't have!

I tolerate ads (to a point) if it's a free service. If I have to pay to use, the product should have no ads.

Even if you adblock and sponsorblock. Advertisement is everywhere. It's on tv series and films as product placements. It's on every bus stop, metro station, in the form of billboards, every casually on TV even muted still showing ads on the corner of your eye, or just company logos, even every single product you buy comes with a damn logo on it.

Bought a new pair of shoes, new headphones, new pair of fucking glasses? Which you need to wear everyday and can't see without them? Enjoy being a walking billboard for everyone who looks at you.

This drives me crazy and yes, I do hide most logos I can with a permanent marker, and even then it's not enough.

I do exactly the same. Ads were tolerable when they were just a few tv commercials, but nowadays we are flooded with them everywhere, and for me they manage to do the opposite of what they are made for, the more I see a brand advertised the more I despise the brand.

We just had a sporting event in the US where people are more interested in the ads than the actual event itself.

I go around installing solutions on my friends and family's phones and TVs (ad-free YouTube clients, stremio, etc) and I fucking hate it when they use the official ones out of habit. Like I didn't just do this for your convenience, this is mainly anti-advertisement activism. I fucking hate ads

Stop doing this nonsense manually !

• Skipping ads ? Use uBlock Origin !
• Skipping sponsorships ? Use SponsorBlock !

I literally dropped my Internet Provider which had a Net+TV+phone packet when their TV box got enshittified with Ads.

Got me a different, Internet Only, provider and made my own TV box from a Mini-PC with Linux and a wireless remote control.

Interestingly, I ended up paying 1/3 the price and getting 5x faster internet relative to the previous provider, so thanks for trying to shove adds on my face Vodaphone!

I'm so hostile about advertising my son has picked up the habit.

Advertising is a technology of control that sacrifices material reality for authoritarian bullshit.

Advertisers deserve the wall.

God I do have a weird relationship with it. I have adguard set up to block ads at the DNS level, I have adblockers on everything, and yet I spent the other night binge watching "Will it Blend?"

I also make a mental note to not buy products that have intrusive ads. There are always alternative brands.

Also, I go out of my way to get all my gas from the one station near me that doesn't show loud ass video ads everytime I get gas.

I almost never watch you tube anymore because of this

After setting up my devices and everything i noticed i get really really mad when i encounter (especially intrusive) ads nonetheless. It usually makes me stop whatever i was doing and consider if whatever i want to accomplish is worth more than watching a 10 second ad. - Usually it´s not.

I actively avoid products and services that are advertised to me.

Got a samsung smart TV that had ads in the menu bar. I bought the thing, why ads. Learn pihole and reuse of old galaxy s7. block Samsung. then firestick. then buy server space to download movies and TV shows.

I got so upset at ads native in TV 6 years ago I hoist the flag.

Invasive ads are my reference to not buying the product.

Almost drove off with the gas cap and door open on my car cause I was doing my best to ignore the pump blasting some shit advertisement about some shit product I don't want and wouldn't buy. Wife caught it before I could drive off, but still, I will never voluntarily watch any form of ad. I loathe this world.

Ublock, privacy badger, pi-hole, sponsorblock 💁