• SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’ll be watching a documentary about a horrible accident or murder and then grammarly pops up in the middle all cheery. Nice ad campaign there guys.

    The weird thing about the whole advertising economy is the assumption that you are somehow denying them money by not watching their ads. It is as if they were thinking “Well, if you do watch the ads enough eventually you’ll cave in and spend $ on the product/service so by not watching our ads you are stealing from us.” No, I have no desire, and never will, to buy your product/service. It reminds me of the copyright proponents who think that if you copy something that is a lost sale. Well, if the price is unreasonable to me, or if I only have it because it is free, it was never a lost sale because I never would’ve bought it in the first place so you haven’t lost a cent.

    Don’t get me on the sites that repeat the same ad on the same page a dozen times. Yah, the first 6 times didn’t get me but the next 6 have me sold!

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      1 year ago

      They want you to remember their products. For example, you know that Grammarly is a text correction service. If the ads didnt exist you wouldn’t know that, so now if you want a service like this, instead of searching “top autocorrect tools” or something else, you would search “grammarly download”.