• roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    195·
    1 day ago

    Every second or third post on Lemmy is about privacy or ad-blocking or piracy or pi-holes or bitching about ad injection.

    Not that any of that is a bad thing. (The bitching isn’t bad, the things are.)

    But you can’t be surprised when you don’t hear about shit. When you reclaim your eye-holes from Madison avenue you need to seek things out.

    • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      10 hours ago

      yeah but this is a movie, not a product. we usually hear about them from people, not necessarily ads. we might not see many ads but other people we talk to and hear from do, and practically no one in my life and media consumption talks about it. compare that to Barbie.

      • roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        4 hours ago

        Talking to other people is part of what I mean by seeking things out. If you do all you can to avoid ads, along with the 99% that are useless you also block the 1% that you might actually find useful.

        For example; I recently heard about this show from a friend that is right up my alley. When I looked up a trailer it’s the kind of thing that seeing a commercial once would have caught my eye and ensured I watch it. She was surprised I hadn’t heard of it because it’s on a network with a few shows she knows I like and they’ve been pimping it pretty hard for a while. Because I block the bullshit I either have to hope cool stuff comes up in conversation or seek out new stuff elsewhere.

    • njm1314@lemmy.worldEnglish
      84·
      17 hours ago

      I’m not sure where on Earth you got the impression that I only consume media through Lemmy.