Nick Miko
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hot take but we should probably just make advertising illegal to save humanity
puddle_poss@chirpbirb i'm glad there's finally more discourse about how it's an accessibility/access issue. ads are so intrusive i hate it.
@puddleposs i remember seeing a thing like you shouldn't and don't owe them neither your processing power nor your eyeball time and god that continues to resonate with me every time i install an ad-blocking tool on my local network
@chirpbirb Yeah anything that's too motion-y is super distracting and i just can't focus on whatever the content is. plus like you said they don't deserve space in my mind.
Velux ΘΔ@chirpbirb I’d start with paying off congresspeople, personally
@chirpbirb Err, by that I mean outlawing that action, not performing it
@Velux in america, they call it lobbying. in the rest of the world, we call it corruption
@chirpbirb Literally. Precisely.
Night M Spark@chirpbirb Ads have long outlived their informational usefulness, but that didn't cause them to go extinct: online advertising companies realized that ads are a psychological torture, which makes them an effective tool of ransom. Without even trying to hide it anymore.
Side note, some time ago I read a speculation that minimalism in interior design of homes, the simple shapes of furniture and limited, dulled color pallette, was a subconscious desire for escape from ad-filled outside environment. That crap is rewiring our brains into traumatic response.