“The digital cooler screens at Walgreens made me watch an ad before it allowed me to know which door held the frozen pizzas,”
“The digital cooler screens at Walgreens made me watch an ad before it allowed me to know which door held the frozen pizzas,”
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"Sorry, you simply buying something doesn't create enough value for our shareholders."
What a fucking crock of shit. Absolutely no respect for anyone's time or dignity. Even being a good little consumer isn't enough anymore, you have to subject yourself to degradation and psychological manipulation even to participate in the basic market activities required of you to exist.
Every door like this is an assault on human decency and smashing them in with a hammer is a moral act.
I really want to emphasize that advertising is a potent form of exploiting human psychology. The advanced and pervasive form of it we see today, where it is tailored to individuals and consistently assaults them using a level of knowledge that many people's loved ones wouldn't even have access to is tantamount to abuse.
If a friend or a partner kept careful notes of your behavior, where you were looking and for how long, what you tended to buy and when based on your surrounding behavior and mood, and used it to manipulate you, we would rightfully call such a person a dangerous abuser. It is absolutely abhorrent to accept that from strangers who also already have massive structural power over us.
I really want to emphasize that advertising is a potent form of exploiting human psychology.
When some smug Redditor says "IF YOU DONT LIKE IT DONT BUY IT, SIMPLE" they're expressing an internalized defeated acceptance of that exploitation.
Not just what you buy, but what you search, what items you look at on other websites, and correlating data with demographic information that is either "lying around" or supplemented with targeted surveys to fill out the profile.
Also what all your friends like as well thanks to facebook/twitter/instagram/tiktok social network ad targeting
I searched ebay on my desktop for something the other day and my partner started seeing ads for it on her Instagram.
Yikes, is your ebay account linked to Facebook/Google or using Google chrome?
I went and turned off all the cookie sharing.
human attention is a finite resource. what does capitalism call those? externalities. what does it do with them? carves them up and destroys them for profit.
U guys are seeing neurologically potent adverts? All I see are schizo mobile games and life insurance popups lol
Let’s not use ableist language, please.
Oh no...
The only ad I actually remember seeing recently was a ad for the CRV and that was just because I was like"why is the CRV a station wagon now?"
I might just become much worse at steering my cart around these.
Unless they are locked until the ad finishes then there is a solution. The solution is to open every single door and leave them open. These freezer doors stay open for easy restocking by fully opening them until they click, just do that or jam something into the locking mechanism.
I genuinely believe most ads are ABLEIST because they're so distracting.
