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    [–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    They’re working on a way to project ads onto your closed eyelids and count that as engagement. It’s technically eyeballs. Maybe the brand makes it into your dreams.

    [–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    ad paused please, resume watching -- please, resume watching -- ...

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

    Fifteen Million Merits, IIRC?

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

    LIGHTSPEED BRIEFS!

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    Like a wish.com version of 3 Body Problem

    [–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    fedora (Sped Up)

    Looks like someone discovered dnf5

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

    dnf5 my beloved

    [–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    If a scientist group figured out that overexposition to ads decreases the efficiency (zoning out) you think the market would deflate?

    [–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    ad agencies would start sell their ads as "non-tiring" or whether bullshit marketing term they come up with and nothing else would change.
    Moneymen will gladly burn the entire planet down into slag if they though it could get them one more penny every month

    [–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    market researchers have figured this out several decades ago

    and no the market hasn’t deflated so there’s your answer

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Meaning current ad market in IT is a bubble? Possibly driven by dominant Google?

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    i don’t think bubbles last 40+ years, i wouldn’t hold out for a change anytime soon :(

    [–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    It's a prisoner dilemma situation. It doesn't matter how effective the ads are on an absolute scale, but a relative one. The aim is to get more facetime than your competition. Unfortunately, any company that opts out gets flattened.

    Incidentally, this is why tobacco companies loved the ad ban (at least in the UK). It had long reached the point where they couldn't encourage many people to smoke. They were advertising to cancel out the poaching of customers by other brands.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    So the only way out would be legal pressure? Now how to get there?

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Just need to find a more intrusive way, and keep innovating ahead of the competition

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

    No, not at all. Sure the rich want to be richer, but hurting the poor is a goal in and of itself in our world.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    What should I add in this one?:

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    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    because of the bitlocker encryption shit ,ive6been pushed over the edge, and am about to Begin installing mint, when i get a usb stick

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    if you have any questions id be glad to answer them!

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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Some people take the weirdest things far too seriously

    [–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Idk, I don't think creating a Spotify playlist is taking things seriously at all

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Having it live in your head so much that you take the time to do it is a bit much.

    [–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

    I don't think this took more than 5 minutes. It's a joke, relax.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    The sad life of a comedian, need to live with the joke in their heads until they make the joke...

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    We do live in a society...

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

    I'm sure you'll be thinking about this conversation for longer than it took to make the original post.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    You do understand how jokes work, right?

    [–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    And some people get upset by the smallest things

    I'm sure that sounds familiar to someone...

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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

    >no GUIX, Parabola or Gentoo on a DRMed SaaSS platform
    fitting

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

    Sir, would you like some content with your ads ? A bit of water maybe?

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    {title} could be the chorus of a song!

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Advertising should be illegal. A good case can be made for this. A short documentary: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=McsqJnRF_XQ

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