#obnoxious ads

[redd956]

Not going to lie, hung out with my nephews this morning, they were watching a movie on some kind of streaming service, and were almost in frustration tears at the disruptiveness and repetitiveness of the ads

I feel like this the true capitalism final boss for gen alpha; zero attention span, finally has the motivation to watch something, and then boom one million obnoxious and predatory ads

[krissiefox]

Having a moan about curseforge. This shit is so annoying and rude! Just let me download my files in peace!

[gandalf-the-bean]

ad: hey, i know you’re in the middle of something, but i was wondering if we could take a moment to read some scripture together—

[captainhysunstuff]

Is it just me or have advertisements gotten more demanding? “DO this to save money!” “Sign up for this RIGHT NOW!” “HURRY and BUY our shit!” Such harsh verbs. Yeesh, not even a please? Don’t tell me what to do. Rude ass. Mute. 😑

[mephestopheles]

If you ever want to see how endemic ads are to a platform the easiest way is to use the app and then the desktop version. I use Pinterest a lot when I'm bored/looking for inspiration for some stuff, and usually use the app without thinking very much. But I've been using the desktop version for a while - I've been sick as shit the last week and a half - and at first I thought there was some kind of glitch or just slow internet bullshit that made my page look empty. Just holes picked throughout the pins. I'm finally back at work and had a spare moment so I was on Pinterest and counted 9 ads/promoted pins out of 12 pins in a scroll.

That's an add for every 3 pins and four promoted pins which are ads under a different name. Like I'm fine with promoted shit, that's how some of the smaller websites and blogs gain a bit of traction. But look at the screenshots below, everything circled is an ad disguised as a promoted pin.

9 ads, 11 actual pins, but they're over shadowed by the ads that take up more space, and the Etsy ones are really deceptive, it's hard to figure out of the Etsy ads are personal ones from small businesses or if they're by Etsy, or worse their the ones by Etsy on behalf of small sellers that end up costing the small seller even more.

I don't have a point to this, other than that it's obnoxious.

[gandalf-the-bean]

words cannot explain how much these royal match ads have made me hate king robert

like literally how is he even a king if he’s always this useless

and with this ad he doesn’t even let the bucket finish filling up and are you telling me there’s no water source in this house? and the water somehow makes it WORSE in this ad?

you can’t tell me this guy doesn’t secretly love being on fire

and in this ad and the acid one he literally jumps in when the acid or lava is about to touch him and he doesn’t bother to try to climb this post higher

and here why doesn’t he even try to move the rocks himself since suddenly he decides he can climb something

normally i’d just let a really fucking useless character in an ad fly if my games didn’t run these exact ads every five minutes and if his voice wasn’t so unbearable i swear to fucking god at this point he can go ahead and burn

i literally close any app i’m on the moment one of these ads comes up

[solarishashernoseinabook]

I can't fucking stand those posts where someone posts something and then someone reblogs immediately with a super obnoxious product shill and then the whole thread is just taken over by ads you've seen a million times already for some lame troll doll lighter case or key blade all it makes me so is wanna punch someone

[captain-narava-felidae-riggs]

Oh thank god The Boys are no longer in Town!