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Guess I'm gonna go fuck up some ads now.
While the comic combined with the text has a bit of an edgy vibe, I agree with the overall message. Advertising was just decided upon to be an acceptable way to force people to look at whatever. And no, it's not always an option to "just don't look at it if you don't like it". I fucking hate those advertising TVs that get set up all over my city, they grab your attention even more than regular billboards.
Let's try that defense for public nudity. People can just choose to not look at it if they don't like it!
You are agreeing? Tone on the internet is lost to me.
The post you replied to is saying that ads can't "just not be looked at".
Same with nudity. You can't just not look at it. You didn't even know it was there.
That's the point.
They were making the point that public nudity is illegal even though you can just look away if you don't agree
But advertising in public spaces is legal on the basis that you could just look away if you didn't want to see it
Oh ok. I can see that perspective now. Thanks for explaining it to me.
Edit: and upon re-reading the comment several times, I can see that exactly.
Without tone the same sentence can go anywhere.
They've been putting those blinding boards all over the place where I live, I think they're supposed to dim at night but they're not properly maintained and fuck whoever thought putting super bright moving images right next to roads is safe and should be allowed.
That shit is distracting as fuck
Throw a rock at it.
Go to jail and get sued sure
That's why you wear a mask
A 12 or 20 gauge shotgun with a 28" barrel, and maybe a full choke, holds a nice pattern when shot from distances, say like from a slowly moving car to something as tall as a billboard.
Watch your background.
I agree fuck ads and all but 90% of the drivers are too distracted by their phones to even see the ad. 😜
Though I guess this might grab the remaining 10% that were trying to actually pay attention to the road (a hypothetical percentage I cannot claim to personally have encountered).
Straight up reads like a Tyler Durden quote.
Fucking up ads with an ad blocker?! Noooo! If you don't like ads, then you should pay for the subscription to get rid of the ads!
I'll pay for all of the subscriptions required to not see ads when the companies I work for pay me enough money to afford it.
Have you seen the prices on these subscription sites?
Every single website you go to wants $20 a month to not show you ads, and for some all that will do is decrease the number of ads you are shown.
If you cycle through the same 10 to 15 websites then that's $200 to $300 a month just to look at the internet that you're paying $100 a month to look at.