• tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
      8·
      4 months ago

      VPNs with DNS level blocking like Mullvad gets around ads on most podcasts for me. I don’t pretend to know how that works, but it does.

      When it doesn’t I get ads from Papua New Guinea, which I don’t mind because I don’t understand what the fuck they’re saying and it sounds funny.

    • moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      Now I’m picturing a Russian immigrant named Ublick Orekhov who sits silently by the living room radio and turns the volume down when an ad comes on.

  • SailorFuzz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    44·
    4 months ago

    Youtubes ads for liberty have ensured that I will never, ever, evereverever buy insurance from liberty.

    Why tf would I want to give my money to a company that has been, basically, waterboarding me with ads? Ruining my entertainment? It makes no sense.

    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      15·
      4 months ago

      My logic is that they are spending way too much money on advertising, so it will be more expensive for me for no gain.

      • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
        4·
        4 months ago

        My view is that if they need to advertise so much they must have a shitty product.

    • BanMe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      4 months ago

      I always make mental note of the companies with invasive and shitty advertising so I can avoid them… glad others do to.

      Try to hijack my subconscious and see how pissed I get.

      • Imaginary_Stand4909@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        Liberty mutual ads suck. Full stop.

        I’ve seen ads though that I didn’t hate, or actually showed something interesting/cared about. I can’t remember what it was lol.

        Like there’s a .0001% chance to find a good ad. I also just never see any, but my mom watches a lot of YT on our TV and refuses to try SmartTube, so that’s the only place where I’m forced to see ads…

  • jack_of_sandwich@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    8·
    4 months ago

    Then they went with just having the radio performers do the ad in the middle of the show, and we’re back to that again with youtubers sticking ad reads in the middle of their videos…

    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      I remember when that used to be considered “tacky.” In fact a whole lot of things so-called “influencers” do today are things that probably would’ve gotten them labeled as “tacky” and “sell-outs” back in the 90s. Somehow, over the course of the decades, these things have become acceptable and expected.

      I cringe when a Youtuber shills for companies, especially since it was revealed that “Honey” (which I used to see a lot of creators promote) was screwing over the very people who advertised for it.

  • s@piefed.worldEnglish
    7·
    4 months ago

    I’ve stopped listening to the radio, watching TV, or using social media altogether. They keep interrupting my ads with content.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    I originally got XM radio because it was ad free.

    Then they merged with Sirrus making it a monopoly and they immediately:

    • Jacked up the price

    • Reduced benefits

    • Removed programming

    • Injected ads everywhere

    And while this was happening, everyone was up in arms over Activision/Blizzard and the fate of fucking COD in another merger treated more like an absolute monopoly than the actual monopoly with the satellite radio providers.