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.
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.
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.
And slap a DNS based ad blocker on top just for good measure.
Even safer, add NoScript to your Firefox fork of choice
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.
I really think people forget how bad it already was by even 1995. Huge, flashing ad banners were everywhere
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.......
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!
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.
At the same time??
Ads on social media must suck. Glad we're all here on lemmy where we get inundated with communist propaganda instead of consumerist propaganda.
Our propaganda.
One of those viruses is Windows.
Shhh...
Just use CoPilot bb
No tears, only Microsoft CoPilot (brought to you by the Microsoft Corporation)
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.
Ublock user: "What are these...ads, that you speak of? They sound intriguing."
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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