Dani 
"If you keep trying to circumvent ads, the whole advertising industry is likely to fall apart!"
My goal exactly.
Cool, another hit post. 
Jack Jackson@porcelainkitty3218 I realized recently that the implied unspoken part of this is "and I value the 'free' content supported by the advertising industry more than I value privacy". The speaker assumes the listener does, too.
Chloe@porcelainkitty3218 lets do that :3
GothPanda@porcelainkitty3218 don't threaten me with a good time.
@gothpanda I know, right?
Staria@porcelainkitty3218 Is this a promise 🥺
Southern Mark Smith@porcelainkitty3218 there was a punk band in the mid 80s who had an official-looking "warning" label on their record that said "Copying records at home is killing the music business. Keep up the good work."
@MirlitonPirogue Can't get much more punk than that.
autowitch@porcelainkitty3218 @MirlitonPirogue
I think that was the Dead Kennedys?
Matthew Miller
crystal@porcelainkitty3218 @MirlitonPirogue iirc there have also been versions with the text "piracy is killing the record industry. that is why we've left the second side of this tape empty so you can contribute"
Joxean Koret (@matalaz)
NaraMoore ⛩️👻八尺様👻⛩️ at FediSucks to be you, ad industry.
Inky The Changeling@porcelainkitty3218
Once upon a time, a billboard was more than enough.
Let's bring that back.
Pete@inky_skink_art @porcelainkitty3218
Billboards are an affront too.
Some cities, countries, or states outlaw them.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/11/can-cities-kick-ads-ban-urban-billboards
Can cities kick ads? Inside the global movement to ban urban billboards
First it was São Paulo, then Chennai. Then Grenoble, Tehran, Paris and now even New York have spawned movements to replace or ban outdoor advertising. Are we entering the age of ad-free cities – or is this just an eye-catching distraction?
@pete @porcelainkitty3218
I see.
Where I come from billboards are about as prominent as tourist direction road signs.
But like, using them to block other things and having 15,000 of them in a single city is... Yikes to say the least.
I see.
Where I come from billboards are about as prominent as tourist direction road signs.
But like, using them to block other things and having 15,000 of them in a single city is... Yikes to say the least.
ThunderstrikeAgain, people keep threatening me with a good time. I don't get it. 🤷♂️
Ambient Sponge@porcelainkitty3218 What a marvelous world that would be.
I share Bill Hicks thoughts on this.
The sole purpose of advertising is to make people unhappy. Imagine doing that as a job.
@pete Bill Hicks in general is underrated.
BeeCycling has moved@porcelainkitty3218 Threatening us with a good time again, I see.
life mask (jeff)
Steven CapobiancoCompany: “But our ads are good for business!”
Their ads: *the most cringeworthy thing you’ll ever see or listen to in your life that stays rent free in our heads, often covering mainstream songs that turn classic earworms into god-awful capitalist remakes of them.*
Company: “See? And we’ve made it unskippable too?! Isn’t consumerism amazing?”
Me: “uBlock origin sends their regards.”
apophis@stevencworlds @porcelainkitty3218 earlier tonight i found myself strongly tempted by a car commercial to buy a new car
because i owned that same brand and the commercial was making me that deeply ashamed of it
because i owned that same brand and the commercial was making me that deeply ashamed of it
arclight@porcelainkitty3218 "You say that like it's a bad thing..."
Joan Albright@porcelainkitty3218 I mean, maybe if people hate looking at them so much, it deserves to. 🤷♀️
Judith Pakosinski@porcelainkitty3218
One upon a time, the price you paid for a newspaper covered printing and delivering it to you. Advertising paid for the newsroom and other employees salaries.
Then Craig’s List took the classified ads, Monster, the recruitment ads. Google and Facebook, the display ads. Stores put flyers that used to come in the Sunday paper on their websites.
Your local newspaper is struggling to cover local news, schools, and politics
And there is no way back to what was.
One upon a time, the price you paid for a newspaper covered printing and delivering it to you. Advertising paid for the newsroom and other employees salaries.
Then Craig’s List took the classified ads, Monster, the recruitment ads. Google and Facebook, the display ads. Stores put flyers that used to come in the Sunday paper on their websites.
Your local newspaper is struggling to cover local news, schools, and politics
And there is no way back to what was.
Quantum@porcelainkitty3218 I don't mind ads because i can simply ignore them mentally. But i do mind being tracked. So i prevent the latter. Resulting in websites falsely accusing me of using an ad blocker. If they are so stupid, i can do without their content.
RedCyberLizzie 
@porcelainkitty3218 they can kick and scream, but tbh their content isn't good enough to be wasting my time like that. I only got so much time on this earth, I don't wanna waste a chunk of it watching advertisements just to get the content I want.
Grandpa Don@porcelainkitty3218 agreed. It is a pack of predators contriving ways to get your money whether you want or need the product or not. I get that they need to inform the market of what they are selling. But " fast FAST FAST relief!!! Screa med at you is not that
Erik Uden 🚩Bring down the global advertising and subsequent surveillance system
Refuse to elaborate
geebeeWA@porcelainkitty3218 That would be good!
@porcelainkitty3218
Want to change the world? Just make advertising non-tax deductable.
Want to change the world? Just make advertising non-tax deductable.
@porcelainkitty3218
What is the worst that could happen? News replaced by propaganda? Writers and actors replaced by reality shows? Newspapers go bankrupt?
Think we are already there.
We have nothing to lose but advertisers themselves.
What is the worst that could happen? News replaced by propaganda? Writers and actors replaced by reality shows? Newspapers go bankrupt?
Think we are already there.
We have nothing to lose but advertisers themselves.
RowinSpeez@porcelainkitty3218 it’s almost as though people don’t want intrusive shit being forced into their attention constantly, forever.
Huh@porcelainkitty3218 I also found a way to skip spotify ads. I won't tell because I don't want it patched, but if you figure it out you can sleep knowing you've won.
Peter Bindels@loafofbread @porcelainkitty3218 Napster or Kazaa Lite?
Coffee (Team CW)@porcelainkitty3218 It appears to me that the advertising industry has a marketing problem.
This... probably does not bode well for the advertising industry.
(hopefully)
Cheetah Fluff@porcelainkitty3218 a reasonable, even aspirational goal.
Emil Jacobs - Collectifission@porcelainkitty3218 Don't threaten me with a good time.
Joanna Czechowska@porcelainkitty3218 Then we must pay for journalism
Nik0 
@porcelainkitty3218 Oh no how am I gonna get my fix every second of advertising.
cadenceeeeeee@porcelainkitty3218 god if only
Trash Panda@porcelainkitty3218
That or we end up in a situation like the one we seem to be approaching now.
I'm worried.
That or we end up in a situation like the one we seem to be approaching now.
I'm worried.
Dave Irving@porcelainkitty3218
I don't see a down side to this.
I don't see a down side to this.
LeBonk@porcelainkitty3218
where's that Simpsons "world without lawyers" gif when you need it
where's that Simpsons "world without lawyers" gif when you need it
PollikExcept...under tories losses are socialised, while profits are privatised. An argument will be found to bail out the largely fictional work of advertising.
Urzl@porcelainkitty3218 I don't feel like any modern commercial venture really knows its place anymore.
We don't owe them an income, a customer base or any business at all. They aren't owed any protection or safety net or any of the other niceties they demand of us and of our government.
They justify their existence by their public service, nothing more.