A few genuine signals quickly become noise as everyone tries to be heard, demanding more and louder signals to stand out.

  • Boozilla
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    Preach. They are doing shit like pasting ads on top of the pitcher’s mound during baseball games and playing commercials on gasoline pump screens. It’s pathological.

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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      171 year ago

      I don’t like sports that much but I bet I could sit through a game if there weren’t fucking ads for shit I don’t want everywhere.

      • @ElectroVagrantOP
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        101 year ago

        Have you tried letting them track everything you do for targeted personalized ads that will absolutely nail what you want? /s

        • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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          121 year ago

          That’s the neat part: They just assume if you’re watching sports you like beer, trucks, and dick pills

          • @[email protected]
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            1 year ago

            Are you really going to sit there and try to tell me that Patrick Mahomes eating wings doesn’t make you want to immediately drop what you’re doing and go to wing stop!?

      • Boozilla
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        41 year ago

        I enjoy watching sports but the ads and greed greatly diminish the experience. NFL is probably the worst of the worst.

    • pseudorandom
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      121 year ago

      Most gas pumps have a button you can press to mute the obnoxious ads. Usually second down on the right.

      • Boozilla
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        231 year ago

        It varies. At one place I used to go to, you could mute them. But they disabled the mute button, so I stopped going there.

        At a different place, I accidentally went into an admin menu (by pressing several buttons at once) and that made me nervous, so I stopped screwing with the buttons. While it’s very tempting to try and hack them, everything is on CCTV now. It’s probably a crime here in the United States of Corporatism.

        Fortunately there are still gas stations close to my job where I can fuel the vehicle in relative peace. I’d rather give those places my business.

        • @Weirdfish
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          I need to sort which ones by me don’t have ads. It’s the jarring audio at 5:30 am when I haven’t had coffee yet that just sours my mood.

            • @[email protected]
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              Please don’t make this a thing in Canada please don’t make this a thing in Canada please don’t make this a thing in Canada please don’t

            • Rentlar
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              11 year ago

              Yeah, I was visiting Seattle at a tram stop, I could hear an ad from a gas pump going off from halfway across the street… obnoxious af.

      • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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        21 year ago

        I’ve been trying every button on the pumps I’ve been to and none of them work. I think advertisers are onto us.