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[–] 40 points 4 months ago (6 children)

People ditched Myspace in part because of the ad saturation.

There was a time when Facebook was the clean and minimalist version of social media.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    I haven't looked at it since those days. I'd probably get instantaneous eye cancer looking at it today...

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Even just the occasional glance at my spouses' phone screen gives me cancer: it's full of ads or 'sponsored content' or 'content' that's a blatant advertisement.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I rarely venture on FB these days, perhaps twice a year. So I was surprised when I last logged in to find a number of posts from people and groups I've never heard of, because FB had decided I'd probably enjoy their content.

    All it told me was that people aren't posting enough to make the feed worthwhile, so they have to inject bullshit into it too.

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    If you see ads you are doing the Internet very wrong. Install Firefox and uBlock Origin or Ad Nauseum extensions for a much safer, better experience.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago

    I wonder if that's why I hate ads so much. Grew up with the understanding that they are a literal attack to both me and my property. ...I mean, that's still exactly what they are, but acknowledging them as such is definitely a minority mindset nowadays.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago

    I really think people forget how bad it already was by even 1995. Huge, flashing ad banners were everywhere

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  • [–] 34 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Or you were watching TV, listening to the radio, reading a magazine, driving down the street, look up at the sky, reading a newspaper, checking your mail.......

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  • [–] 52 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?

    Fry: Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines and movies and at ball games, on buses and milk cartons and T-shirts and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No, sir-ee!

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago*

    When I was a kid it was <10 minutes of ads per hour on TV and (I think) 12 minutes per hour on radio, roadside billboards were illegal in my county, and the local newspaper ads were mostly relegated to the back page and sunday inserts.

    There were also no blatant ads pre-roll at movie theaters and productions got bad press for having product placement.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    Now the viruses go straight into your brain. Talk about efficiency!

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  • [–] 22 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Ads on social media must suck. Glad we're all here on lemmy where we get inundated with communist propaganda instead of consumerist propaganda.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    One of those viruses is Windows.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Shhh...

    Just use CoPilot bb

    No tears, only Microsoft CoPilot (brought to you by the Microsoft Corporation)

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    I guess we have some misconception who is Gen Z really.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    What was that thing where a website could create a sort of borderless window with a hot chick or cute character in it simply by visiting the website. And you couldn't close it because it was borderless with no buttons.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Ublock user: "What are these...ads, that you speak of? They sound intriguing."

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Bonzai Buddy is back...in AI form!

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Wow I bet this one kills at the vet's club

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago

    Social media is for idiots, u deserve the ads on that toxic trash.

    Almost time to delete this app, for real.

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  • [+] -8 points 4 months ago

    Ok boomer ahh comment

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