Commercial overkill…

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Fyrefox

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There’s no escaping commercials. If you’ve shopped on line, websites can remember your searches, and will badger you with ads for products similar to those you’ve searched. If a website requires you to register with them to use the site, they may require your age, and use that to customize ads they hit you with. You may not even be able to escape ads while pumping your own gas, which my state allows you to do. Yep, a gas station I frequent has pumps complete with a small screen that blares commercials at you while you’re operating the pump! You can’t “opt out,” and so are a captive audience, in essence paying for your gas twice! Has anyone else experienced this horror? 🙀

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George1959 said:
You may not believe it, but I've already noticed screens above every urinal with advertisements in the men's rest rooms. Can't remember what ads, since I had to focus on my work.:ROFLMAO:
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OMG! Advertisers have no decency! It’s bad enough hearing the “bent carrot” ad and the Lume lady in the privacy of your own home! 😾
 

I agree, it's excessive to an extreme. It's like Corprate America has decided that the purpose of my existence on Earth is to be brainwashed to buy stuff I wouldn't normally buy, and the brainwashing starts in early childhood to insure that we are all properly trained to respond to the conditioning.

It's legal of course, but I put the process in a category closely resembling practices that are immoral. It's good for the economy, but it's generally agreed, maybe even in the Geneva Conventions, that turning people into robots to serve purposes not in their own interests a war crime.

I know I'll be jumped on for the comparison, but I think it's the same technique used to exploit others for just a different specific purpose that is not helpful to most people's personal well being. And when we include disinformation on the internet, it's filled with lies. Yes, I believe it's immoral.
 
My gas station has screens on its gas pumps that run ads as you pump your gas. The back of my grocery receipt is filled with ads. And what good is an ad blocker, when you have to shut it off to see the site you want. I know it's trite, but the ingenuity that sent a man to the moon is used to put ads into every second of your life.
 
I started skiing 50 years ago. Many ski resorts were relaxed and enjoyable, with the exception of places like Vail and Aspen, which were not the quiet retreats I once knew. I can't remember the year, but suddenly one of my favorite places had a billboard on every tower of every chairlift. Instead of marveling to yourself on the beauty and solitude of a view from the top of the mountain in the dead of winter, they were focusing your attention on car insurance, Snickers bars, and Hawaiian vacations. One of the great pleasures of skiing was replaced by annoyances I thought only happened on the television. Ads don't make anything better. They are just distractions.
 
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fuzzybuddy said:
what good is an ad blocker, when you have to shut it off to see the site you want
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In addition to ad blockers you could use a proxy web site like this one. <--

I don't use any site that's littered with ads, thus use Adblocker Plus and Adblocker Ultimate, plus I don't buy nor use anything that is constantly advertised, the most offensive of those being drug advertisements and doctors, the dregs of humanity.

Advertisements to me are a red flag to stay far away from them.
 
Let's add attorneys to the list of annoying advertisers.

JMHO, but if the drug companies, doctors, lawyers, can afford to advertise on TV, they're too expensive and the ones I want to stay away from.

I might also add that the drug companies suggesting that we should prescribe to the doctor is downright stupid. I'm all for advocating for myself, but draw the line at telling my doc what to prescribe for whatever it is that ails me. If I had the answers, I wouldn't need a doctor.
 
Well. Some people have gotten double use of those "I did that!" Brandon stickers. They now are putting them over the speakers! Now it's still possible to hear, but it's muffled.
 
Blah I just ignore them. Does Corporate America think everyone is captivated by that junk? The Liberty Mutual Commercials make fun of it by saying stuff like, people remember ads when you add music or nostalgia. They know we don't. We don't remember where our car keys are or whether we answered an important email. Geez.
 
Fyrefox said:
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Timely thread, was just thinking about the commercial abomination myself. There's the ads at the gas pump, which I will shun by not fueling at that station anymore. The amount of TV ads during the day is disgusting. Paying DISH net $125/month...and they have the audacity to cram tons of commercials into their mostly garbage programming.
The other day during commercial break I counted four "ask your doctor" drug commercials back-to-back, followed by one OTC drug commercial and one kitty litter commercial. :rolleyes:
 
George1959 said:
You may not believe it, but I've already noticed screens above every urinal with advertisements in the men's rest rooms. Can't remember what ads, since I had to focus on my work.:ROFLMAO:
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This actually reminds me of years ago in a hotel public restroom. It was the one on the first floor. Above each urinal was a glass encased page from USA Today newspaper. Initially, I thought it odd but didn't mind since I could catchup on some national news or sports news while emptying my bladder.
 
DebraMae said:
I will never understand why advertisers think irritating people is going to sell their product. Some of those supplemental Medicare ads were so offensive I just started turning off the TV whenever they came on.
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Nathan is right. Ads are tested carefully and there were actual studies done years ago, that found that fun pleasing and funny ads do not get as good of results as annoying ones. Like you, I don't understand the psychology involved, but I might guess that annoying ads will have a bigger impact on your emotions and intellect and cause you to remember the product longer. But whatever the actual cause, the only thing that counts are the results, the actual number of robots that end up buying the product (robots refers to all humans, even those who believe they think for themselves).
 

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