[prettynpink17]

[winterphile]

No, they are doing them for wages below what people are willing to work for, usually paying them in cash without taxes.

[onlizine]

[throwbackblr]

[90skid-com]

Watch the 90s series below

[90skid-com]

[lyouve]

Books are so cool because there are no fucking ads in them

[aardvarkingmad]

There are no fucking ads in them NOW.

I've been buying books for decades, and I remember when the plague of slick, stiff paper ads inserted in the middle of paperbacks fell upon the book buying public. Usually cigarette ads, as I recall, probably because that was after cigarette ads were forbidden on television and radio. They were annoying as hell because they tended to make the book open to that point by default--and you couldn't cleanly pull them out, either.

Fortunately, this plague on book buyers was fairly temporary, probably because it wasn't a good investment for the advertisers. A given book's ad can only reliably be expected to be read by ONE reader, and there was no way of tracking who it was, whether it influenced their buying habits, etc.

And good riddance.

[lennondolly]

[not-your-average-url]

I miss when ads were a single click and then they’re gone. Now every ad has a minimum of three phases where you watch a video, exit the still frame of fake gameplay, and then exit the app download. That doesn’t even touch on the ones that forcibly take you to another app after opening a tab in safari without you ever touching the screen.

I hate advertising. I hate that you can’t do anything without companies jumping down your throat with mostly bullshit ads. I hate that billboards exist. I hate that every company unanimously decided to make their ads longer and longer. I hate that ad blockers try to charge you money and there are in app purchases to remove ads. I hate that my attention has become commodified. I hate that there’s nothing I can do about it.

[the-davest-of-uncles]

AdGuard works great on mobile. uBlockOrigin works great on desktop.

[anjomecanico]

Autistic men are somehow horrible at all social norms except misogyny

[modernbritain]

[prettynpink17]

[jardinssteve]

[simply-ivanka]

[imsobadatnicknames2]

I know I already made a post to this effect but it's so baffling to me when someone defends the fact that headphone jacks are slowly but surely getting phased out by smartphone manufacturers with some variations of "wireless headphones are more convenient anyway" bc like. If we're talking about convenience what I like about wired headphones is that they conveniently have a single plug that makes the same damn pair of headphones universally compatible with every single audio-output-capable device I own, from my phone and my computer to my fucking gameboy and my casette player, it doesn't get any more convenient than that.

[prettynpink17]

[stupittmoran]

[guns-in-the-valley-deactivated2]

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

hmmm

[retiredtsgt]