• nagaram@startrek.website
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    2 days ago

    I agree with the sentiment (ads blocked in so many ways here).

    However, people are looking to buy things and ads do work. I used to discover cool products and go to cool events I found because of ads and algorithms.

    But I swear I haven’t seen anything worth buy for years before I went full anti-ad. Its all temu drop shipped garbage and AI cheating tools now. I don’t even get hot singles like the good old days!

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      2 days ago

      The products I can find on my own. I just need an ad to tell me that the type of product exists (I’m aware that only monopolies would benefit from that kind of as).

      I’ll be choosing the model/brand on merit. If anything the one being heavily advertised is going to be worse (or at least the cost of the ads is included in the price).

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        2 days ago

        I’d agree with that use of ads.

        Hell, my last laptop purchase was because of an ad, but I bought a totally different company’s laptop.