• Ben Haube@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Haha now if only they could do it in Times Square. That place is a giant eyesore.

    I used to feel bad about using an ad blocker on the internet, but not anymore. I utilize PiHole and uBO for ad blocking now because the internet has literally become unusable without it. I never minded seeing ads, but they have gotten so brazen about it now with the most obnoxious ads possible. When the ads start negatively affecting the usability of the Internet there’s a serious problem. So they can either use respectful ad placement and get some revenue from me, or they can have them blocked and get zero revenue. It’s their choice.

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      1 year ago

      That’s why I like that my adblocker has an option to let respectful ads through.

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      1 year ago

      Wasn’t there once a Spotify ad for their own premium service where all they did was play annoying dissonant sounds and then was like “you wouldn’t have had to hear that if you had premium.”

      I wouldn’t have had to hear that if I didn’t use your fucking app and torrented all my music, how bout that?

      (I never got an ad like this back when I still used Spotify so I can’t confirm if this is real or not. Anyone else know what I’m talking about and can confirm if this was ever a thing?)