Vibes from Truman show when his wife starts her mococa product placement during his distress. God the pervasiveness of listening to humans chat about a product really has proven to sell.. AI podcast tailored to your preferences that puts their product placement in the best spot after leading you towards a huge need for it... Ye it's best to start pruning your media right away
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I can always tell when my wife is on some ad cuz it's just the idea out of no where with no context. The more distant from social media you get the more you see it influencing others.
Yeah same. My gf just out of nowhere comes and is like look at this cool thing I saw on Instagram.
Sorry darling that ia clearly a sponsored post aka an ad.
My wife actually buys a bunch of this shit. We've got packages arriving from China almost weekly and I hate it.
There's only been one of her influenced buys that has been any good, but I'd trade it for not having a Chinese garbage dump for a house.
It's also so weird how different people react to it. I roll my eyes the whole time and skip past it, I figured that is what everyone did (except for mbmbam sometimes if they have good jokes during it. I have never even considered trying out one of the products. I always figure those who have to rely on advertising extremely heavily are shit, like Raycons and BetterHelp.
The first ever sour experience I had with MBMBAM was believing them about Nature Box's snacks. The almonds and shit I got were okay, but definitely not worth the price, and there was some fuckery with the subscription where even though I cancelled it, it still charged me $50, non-refundable. I've never trusted a podcast ad since then
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"Hey, you should install this app, Honey, it literally gives you free money! ignore all the requests to porn sites its making, and the weird and convuloted blockchain features!.
While you're at it, get nordvpn, so we can use the internet while encrypted and stop facebook tracking us!
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Since you mention nord vpn… it’s also annoying that content creators seem to think a vpn I’d something that keeps your passwords safe.
They’re almost definitely shilling something they don’t even know what it does.
I think nord offers a password manager alongside the vpn now, which is where that comes from. But yea, I hate the way vpns are always presented in those ads. I think most people now know the word "vpn" but most still don't know what it actually means, but think they do.
Many students in my IT class think that a VPN is just "that thing that encrypts your Internet".
You got to teach your kids how to pirate. A VPN isn't the thing that encrypts your internet, it's the thing that keeps your ISP from knowing that the 200 GiB you've uploaded this month was all copyrighted material
Not that I speak from experience
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NordVPN (and every other vpn, honestly) is good for torrents, they even have dedicated torrent nodes. I got a multi-year thing, for under 3 euros a month.
"Raid, Shadow Legends"
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FUCK ADS!
Podcast ads can be some of the most acceptable, when it’s the hosts reading about products they might’ve used / didn’t mind using.
If a quick “sub to Audible” is the difference between a Patreon paywall / content unavailable & free listening, well, make it quick pls 😉
sidebar - shoutout styropyro for some ad for a science desk where he lit the one he got free on fire. Sponsorblockers missed a fun segment there (arguably making up for it with less dubious supplement spam of course)
Edit: that might not be the exact video but it’s awesome
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Sooo, are people not mashing that forward button until they hit podcast again?
My podcast app lets you customize how far forward the "skip forward" button skips, which was really useful at first... And then my podcasts started running different length ads. It doesn't help that the only podcast I really listen to these days is Hey Riddle Riddle, where ad segments are indistinguishable from scenes
I'm almost always listening to podcasts while doing things like driving, exercising, or biking, so no I can't really dick around with my phone to skip stuff easily most of the time.
I recently discovered, the "next track" button on my steering wheel is not actually "next track" but "skip 30sec" in the podcast app (AntennaPod). Absolute game changer. I skip all sponsors now! YMMW depending on the app.
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I will actually pull my bike onto the sidewalk and stop to skip ads lol
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Audible is ok, but you have to have restraint. Get you 12 or 24 credits, Make sure none of the books you're buying are available through overdrive with your library, spend your points, cancel, go through all those books, Read a few on dead trees, or even a few from LibGen, then when it's all done wait until you can't wait anymore and sign up for another 12 or 24 credits.
Save your audio books for when you're driving or cooking or cleaning, Don't just sit on the couch and listen to them.
And use the tools to rip them immediately. Until you extract mp3 data out of your books they're not you are books.
they're not you are books
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homie. calm down. it's a dash mark. not a catastrophe.
You had the option of saying it's an apostrophe not a catastrophe and you didn't fucking take it
yeh that was my point, sorry it didn't land
Sorry I was driving at the time and Google AI is slowly ruining voice dictation. They're not your books.
Please don't browse lemmy while you're driving
Dead stopped in traffic. Phone handsfree hence dictation.
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The only product I've ever first heard of via an Internet ad that I tried and was exactly as advertised is my Groove Life belt. This thing is fuckin' nice and has a lifetime guarantee. I can send it back for a different color if I wanted to, and I've had it for a few years now.
Everything else I've tried after finding it from ads online has sucked major balls or been basically no better than a cheaper brand.
This reads like an ad
Yes! My wife was going to leave me and run off with my conventionally attractive neighbour, but then I discovered Groove Life™! I immediately called their toll-free number and ordered a pair of Groove Life™ socks. My life has never been the same since! Once he saw me walking down the street with new-found confidence thanks to my Groove Life™ socks, my neighbour dumped my wife and moved in with me.
My entire family had been skinned alive and I was made to watch it all. I was depressed and about to kill myself. But then I discovered Groove Life™. The first time I put them on, I felt a spiritual presence enter my heart. This presence whispered “Make sure you tell your friends and family that Groove Life™ are now 15% off when purchased with Kohl’s Cash” and I have never felt the same since.
what does it do? can i staple it to myself in different places on different days for different effects?
Mine has +2 Strength, +2 Stamina.
For me it's Darn Tough socks. Though, it may not have been an ad and just something someone really liked.
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U guys have ads? Isn't that what adblockers are for?
Which adblockers work on Podcasts?
Fast forward.
behind the bastards is 12 presses of the skip button
no such thing as a fish is 4
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