@fesshole
I block #adverts aggressively, so I don't normally see them at all. But, the other day, while responding to a lighthearted thread about dating sites, I asked Google how many women on dating sites were bots. Now, every time I update the apps on my phone, #Google Play Store pushes dating apps at me.
I'm a married man. I don't play away. I don't want Mrs Wife to see dating stuff on my #phone when she borrows it. This is as creepy as hell.
Advertising in the 1960s.
In 1961, 84% of viewers approved of television advertising.
Do you remember these campaigns?
Can you tell the difference between Stork SB and butter?
“Shh…you know who.” - Schweppes Tonic Water.
Put a tiger in your tank. - Esso.
“Happiness is…a Hamlet cigar.”
Persil washes whiter.
Everyone’s a fruit and nutcase - Cadbury’s chocolate.
Can you think of any others?
https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-16dca8ae-54ae135dfb74755f
Commercial BREAK 001: Persil & Comfort - Breaking the Ads and Revealing some Truths.
https://spectra.video/videos/watch/58ff35ba-eba1-4caa-9bed-e7fe84904932
So I turned off the new Firefox advertiser-friendly stuff.
But somehow I feel this isn't enough. I want to do more than just turn the feature off, I would prefer to submit poisoned and false data to it continually.
Anyone know a plugin that will flood this bullshit system with fake AI lies or anything like that?
In the page explaining why they silently forced this bullshit on me they say "Attribution is very important to advertisers"
Fuck advertisers. Fuck them. You get that Firefox? It is not your job to be kind to advertisers, it is your job to fuck them on my behalf.
I had heard they had adverts.. but wasn't really expecting it. Signed up for #AmazonPrime last night because I thought it would be easier.. Twice while watching Clarksons farm we were interrupted with around 45 to 60 seconds of #adverts. That's the last time I bother subscribing and watching that way! Whats the point in paying to still see adverts ? #PrimeVideo #AmazonPrimeVideo
@Susan_Larson_TN@mastodon.online#Gay #Labour #councillor’s #Grindr #election #adverts encourage #voters to ‘put him on top’
#JonConnorLyons was #reelected to #Manchester #CityCouncil for the #PiccadillyWward earlier this month.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Politics #OnlineDating
Cancelled my Amazon Prime as it expired at the end of the month, explaining in the exit-form that Amazon seem to like adverts on videos and hate worker-unions in warehouses whereas I hate adverts on videos and love worker-unions at workplaces so seems like we're incompatible these days.
I don't think there's ever been an era where advertising has been more "No, you will fucking sit there, and watch us tell you about a car you will never afford." #advertising #adverts
Movie News - January 13, 1948
Recommended by June Allyson and nine out of ten movie stars, the Lux massage technique “brings quick new loveliness”.
What new horror is this?
I’m watching an “in-video” advert on Youtube which is then interrupted by an enforced advert… which is then interrupted by another advert which I can’t skip for 30 seconds. When I do skip, I’m back to the original “in-video” advert.
I’m not interest in the slightest in any of the products advertised so wasted on me.
@Susan_Larson_TN@mastodon.onlineThis #Australian #TV #advert featured two #women #kissing.
It received more than 100 #Homophobic #complaints. It’s sadly common for #adverts featuring #inclusivity to receive #complaints.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Australia #Hate #Bigotry #Homophobia
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/12/15/extra-chewing-gum-lesbian-kiss-complaints/
@Susan_Larson_TN@mastodon.online#Lesbian #group #replaces #adverts with #stories of #LGBTQ+ #people in #Palestine.
#TheDykeProject, a #group of #trans, #cis and #nonbinary #lesbians and #queers of all persuasions, targeted #TransportforLondon’s #network as a part of a #call for an #end to the #Israel-#Hamas #conflict. .
#Posters, telling #moving #stories, were put up on the #VictoriaLine and the #LondonOverground.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #MiddleEast #Israel #Palestine #Activism
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/31/palestine-queering-map-lesbian-adverts-protest/
The Trojan darkness from clearly devious intentions to every day online use comes again from Israel!
Pegasus was only the first tool that Israel conjoured to ‘protect’ their interests in our world, now come adverts infected with their malicious code.
@retrosteveuk@mastodon.onlineGot a new video on my RetroSpectives channel. A nostalgic look-back at ten (plus four honourable mentions) of the most memorable UK TV adverts with the greatest musical jingles.
Video Link: https://youtu.be/ESt23M3R8-s
Strong language
Why are so many a-holes in socially influential positions?
Is it that power corrupts?
Or is there something about the social systems: economic, political, religious, etc., that enables corrupt people to gain power?
Only a fool would intentionally plan to develop #cancer or #dementia
You'd have to be cruel to intentionally harm children
You'd have to be ignorant to *want* to #smoke tobacco
You'd have to be ignorant to want to inhale traffic & wood smoke air pollution.
And yet, many people do want to smoke & do want to own combustion engine vehicles & wood stoves
When people are not acting in their own best interests, we need to ask who is misinforming them?
The website formerly known as Twitter
It's so funny to me that the Muskrat is now changing how ads on Twitter are marked because people keep blocking accounts that post ads. XD
Vitamin B12 Caution
I am always #Wary when I see #Adverts from people claiming to be a #Doctor and selling a #MiracleCure from the #USA.
I am seeing claims about #VitaminB12
You do have to be careful if you are #Vegan though #Marmite is a good source. Tablets are cheap but a very high dose. It is so much not a problem that the adverts reek of #Privatised #Health #ConGames with their claims of #Undiagnosed #Deficiency
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vitamin-b12-or-folate-deficiency-anaemia/
"Before I left Twitter (I no longer post there, but still have my locked account), I noticed that there was more and more anti-Black racism from other posters; particularly of interest to me was the kickback against Black people in British adverts.
I, too, had noticed the increase in the Black presence in the commercial breaks starting in the middle of 2020 - a response to #BlackLivesMatter, maybe?"
https://marjoriemorgan.substack.com/p/blackverts-part-ii?sd=pf
