Having to interact with the ad for a set amount of time(opening the site promoted) to be able to continue using the app
Having to buy a minimum amount of promoted products would be extra evil
this post was submitted on 10 May 2024
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Quit crowdsourcing your goddamn school assignments.
Nice try EA, but you're not getting my golden ideas for free.
Why do we need custom backgrounds for our phones and computers? That's free space that could be ads. Especially good if clicking/tapping on the background causes a full screen, unclosable, unskippable ad. Because a misclick is definitely showing interest in the product.
Browser load times. Slow that down a bit, and you've got enough time to pop an ad in between every page load.
Escalator commercial break. Stops the escalator until the ad is done.
"this escalator is temporarily stairs. You're welcome." -Mitch Hedberg
The real one to worry about is stopping the elevator for an ad break. You're trapped now bitches!
One ad break between each floor or pay for direct lift that is a killer idea.
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Put ads for Twinkies on your can of Coke.
Lol ads that can be engineered into DNA, so that they can be passed down for generations.
We could end up engineering birth marks with arbitrary shapes like the Nike logo which may be passed on to offspring
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When people start to live in space, we can ration oxygen to the occupants, force them to view ads to live or pay for subscriptiom
If any of these become a reality I am fully prepared and willing to commit acts of-
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Ads etched into glasses. Maybe tiny screens if that's possible.
Clothing with patches sewn into the interior in the shape of the brand you're trying to sell. Like braille ads, but for your clothes.
This guy ads
Michael Scott No no No. no NO dot meme
The movie thing happens in India since ages ago, they call it intervals. Tons of ads before a movie starts and during the interval. Nice for a pee break and to buy snacks, but they obviously overdo it, movies never start on time, and the whole experience is shitty.
For some context, it's because Indian movies were conventionally much longer in length (2.5 to 3 hours). Movies are written to have a cliffhanger at the interval, so much so that it's sometimes referred to as a meta joke.
2 is already a thing. Product placement.
Cineplex movie theaters in Canada have ads in the app you use to watch trailers and buy tickets.
Per-swipe ads on phones. Free tier: every 5 swipes, regardless of app, full screen unskippable ads (content saved to devices locally so airplane mode doesn't stop it). Then you pay more to increase the number of swipes you get between ads.
Great idea. We can also set a timer for the wifi on your phone to be disconnected automatically and you have to watch an ad before the time runs out to postphone it.
Regulatory bodies, save us!
Pop-up ads for a mortuary that include a basilisk code.