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The AD-BASED internet is DYING, and it's getting WORSE in the process (tilvids.com)
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[-] Knusper@feddit.de 30 points 1 year ago

People have been talking about an ad inflation.

Showing one person 500 ads is just not going to make them buy 500 products. Out of all the ads a person sees, they'll maybe buy one product which they wouldn't buy anyways. And the value of that one product is the value those 500 ads have to share between each other.

So, individual sites showing more ads just means they get a bigger slice of that cake. Until the other sites increase how many ads they shove into our faces, too.

It ends up being an arms race and everyone loses.

[-] AnonTwo@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

Did ad-based internet even stand a chance?

The early internet curbtailed it because it started off over-intrusive even creeping into Windows system alerts. Even now ads have the stigma of being riddled with performance issues and malware. Are they even priced anywhere close to what cable TV ads are priced?

[-] ricecooker@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Google and Facebook were both built on ad-based internet. So...until privacy is respected, cookies go away, and more importantly, people did not buy things based on ads, yeah ad-based internet stands a chance. I did a quick search on how big the digital advertising market is and there are various numbers being reported m. I'll give you the lowest one—$~200 billion

[-] LoafyLemon@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Cookies are important. How else do we store user settings that cannot legally be stored on the server?

[-] MessyEh@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure he meant tracking cookies used by ad networks.

[-] Yewb@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

I feel like immune to adds, i just don't see them.

[-] Noxvento@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Ublock Origin makes me immune to ads.

[-] st3ph3n@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Ublock Origin combined with a PiHole and SponsorBlock makes for a much nicer browsing experience.

[-] bandario@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago

I run this combo at home. My daughter was 5 years old by the time we moved back to our home state and she got to spend a few nights at her grandparents house for the first time.

My dad put a disney movie on for her and set her up with some popcorn and a blanket and shit whilst we sat outside having a beer. About 5 minutes later she came running out to tell us that something was wrong with the TV, and that it was broken.

You know what was wrong with it? People were suddenly screaming at her at twice the volume of the original program. She'd never seen an advertisement before.

I was quite proud of myself, but her reaction said it all for me. I'm 40 next year, and this shit has just gotten more ridiculous over time. Seems like boomers are the only people left on the planet that are prepared to be screamed at in their own homes. It aint for me, and clearly not for my daughter either.

There's be some growing pains over the next few years for sure, but as per the original video up top here I think it's for the best. Being a "content creator" shouldn't be a job. Leave it to the hobbyists. Consume less, create more.

[-] Ronno@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah indeed, was sitting next to a someone on the bus the other day, she was browsing social media (I’m not even sure which app), she had to stop every minute or so to watch an ad. Wasn’t even phased about it. It is in those moments that I think the NPC theory is real, but I doubt it can be

[-] LoafyLemon@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

This post is sponsored by uBlock Origin. (Not actually, but it's the closest to the ad you'd get with uBlock Origin :-) )

[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Advertising is the only industry where it's collectively accepted that we pay protection money to not see the product.

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