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  • Again, context matters.

    In a context that’s explicitly anti-ads, they’re not going to benefit from me quoting a snippet of their aural assault.

    You might not like that you’ve done it, but no amount of quote replying can change that you’ve done something quite valuable for them. doubled and then tripled down on being willfully blind to context in an obnoxiously condescending manner.

    To put it bluntly since you’re not one to pick up on clues: shut the fuck up with your bullshit, please.


  • Advertisers do want people exactly like you

    I promise you they don’t.

    who will go around telling other people about their product

    That’s not what I’m doing and you’d have known that if you paid attention to context rather than automatically apply your generalizations about ad effectiveness where they don’t apply.

    You even repeated part of their copy for us, so now we know generally what service they provide

    Except the “copy” does NOT in fact disclose that. I’m not gonna (in your mind) prove you right by telling you what they do, but one of the many things they DON’T do is helping people start a business.

    if any person reading this doesn’t hold the same lack of regard for corporate interests as you

    What kind of contrarian idiot would read this far down a thread specifically about hating ads for product recommendations? Other than yourself, of course.

    Advertising is ~little more than~ corporate propaganda

    Fixed it for you

    you are not immune to propaganda.

    Nobody inherently is, but that doesn’t mean that ALL propaganda works on ALL people.

    The world isn’t a binary like that.


  • Yeah, because who doesn’t dream of such wonderful word of mouth as being vilified on a thread about hating ads on an open source forum where most users actively oppose corporations? 🙄

    I’d never heard of shopify until now.

    I’d apologize for ruining your streak of good luck, but based on the glibly condescending and confidently wrong first part of your comment, it sounds like you deserve shopify ads 🤷🏻


  • You’re not gonna remember 6 months ago when that detergent ad ruined your 3rd blindfolded Dark Souls 3 run with a taser for a controller

    When it comes to ads being forced on me, I do not forget and I do not forgive.

    Also, the taser controller would probably make the whole thing more vividly memorable 😄

    People love to feel like they’re that one wolf among sheep when they get annoyed by an ad, but in the end the rich corps still win.

    I’m not “one wolf among sheep” or any such self-aggrandizing bullshit.

    I’m just a neuroatypical dude who has a low tolerance for annoying things interrupting my self-care entertainment/buffer against sensory overload.

    When ads are repeatedly forced on me despite my efforts to do everything short of spending money I don’t have to avoid them, I consider it abuse and take it personally that the greedy bastards would insist on repeatedly ruining my mental equilibrium like that.