3mo ago

there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites

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I have legit never bought a single thing because I saw and ad for said product. I don’t know who is out here making these campaigns so profitable
- Brand awareness gets you subconsciously
  
  I don't know, I distrust all YouTube ads content creators slide into their videos, because the products are either useless to me, disappointing in real life like the "fruit smells" rings for water bottles or sketchy with some fear mongering like the VPNs.
  
  Yeah I'm not gonna be paying for NordVPN. They've got this much money for ads and when buying 2 years at a time they're cheaper than, say, Mullvad? Suspicious.
  I do like some of the channels' sponsor segments though. Internet Historian is great, OverSimplified can do pretty good ones. The Map Men are pure gold. But I've never bought into anything they've shilled at me, nor do I feel like I want to.
  
  Sponsor block is a browser addons that addresses this niche
  
  I dunno, I don't just ignore ads, I find them repulsive, like my scam-alarms go off even when I know that it's probably a legit product. Seriously unless I get a recommendation from an actual person, the brand I've never heard of feels safer to me then the brand I saw a cheap ad for on some janky website. Maybe it's because so much of the stuff I had growing up was knockoff/store brand, so I've hardly ever actually experienced anything that I saw an ad for.
- Here's a really horrifying fact about ads, they don't expect you to go right out and buy their product. Ads target your subconscious and manipulate your way of thinking. There was a study done by some university and tested by a few people across different fields of study that proved this to be correct. I wish I could remember off the top of my head where this was published. If you do a little browsing you can probably find it and you should because you can't trust a stranger like me to properly relay the information.

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