• r00ty@kbin.life
    981·
    2 days ago

    You know I cannot be the only one that will consciously decide to not buy brands that make intrusive adverts. But, they must also know that. So I can only assume that the majority of people don’t think the same and it’s an overall upside for these annoying ads.

    • blx@piefed.zipEnglish
      541·
      2 days ago

      That baffles me too. Being annoyed by an obnoxious ad instantly puts the brand in my naughty, to-boycott list.

      Like, if I ever need to use a VPN, guess who I’ll go out of my way to never, ever use? That’s right NordVPN, go fuck yourself! I’ve never used you and I already hate you.

      How do people care so little that it’s still a beneficial strategy for brands?

      • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        283·
        1 day ago

        I just assume that anyone who needs to spend a lot on bothering me about their product… is either pushing a really shitty product, or offering it at a really shitty price, because so far that has been the case about 90% of the time.

        If it was a good value, people would spontaneously recommend it when appropriate, with only light advertising in places where it makes sense (athletic gear advertised on sports websites, for example). Hell, it doesn’t even have to be all that good a product, just better than the alternatives. I mean look at Linux! :p

        It’s so clear when you know what’s going on, but I think most people operate under the assumption that if they constantly hear about it and don’t hear bad things to the same degree, that the thing must be good. Propaganda is everywhere saying exactly that in lots of different ways, so hard to really blame them…

        • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          141·
          1 day ago

          or offering it at a really shitty price

          Advertising budget has to come from somewhere. If you can afford to inundate me with constant ads, then I know your product costs way more than it needs to.

    • Eheran@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      2 days ago

      Correct. Ads work extremely well. The simple and short explanation is that most people are dumb.

    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      21·
      2 days ago

      Adblockers are not that difficult to install, so I’d guess the slice of people who really resent ads enough to actually make purchasing decisions out of spite but also who still watch them isn’t that big.

    • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      1 day ago

      There is a third category here: people who also hate ads but pay to turn off the ads, recognizing that a service takes money to operate. You’re not the only one who hates ads, and if you simply eschew them, that’s great. But we have a lot of people here who want to get everything for nothing, and that’s just not a tenable plan.

      I mean look at the entitlement in the post. “Your” ads but “my” video.

      • ttyybb@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        I’ve tried it, but the only “ads” I’ve had it collect in the past are cookie banners, random reddit posts, and thumbnails on a Google search page (only used a Google search page to try and see if it would actually collect ads)