Where did this ‘never wash your jeans!’ mentality come from?

The same place all religious and other propaganda comes from. Plus it’s useful to spot the gullible and easily led people so you can avoid them to save your sanity!

Or gets murdered… so lets add weapons to the drones, just in case you ‘look’ like you’re about to murder someone!

I wasn’t a huge discord use but I just removed all the channels before deleting the app on every device.

Not going to make a huge difference but if everyone does it, maybe it will!

I would be curious to know how e-commerce would change though as without ads people would likely gravitate to the big box stores

Do they need to advertise? At the moment we still have search engines, although not for long, but remove the marketing crap and companies can go back to fighting over offering the best prices/services.

I rarely see ads and yet I can still manage to buy the products I want, I just don’t buy much branded crap because it’s overpriced and has been enshitified by greed. People just need to stop buying into marketing bs and go back to buying what you need!

Sadly everything is designed to manipulate the gullible so I doubt there’ll be any meaningful change in my lifetime since it seems to be 60-70% of the population that falls under the gullible tag.

I mean, the rich are benefiting from all the ad spending which is all that matters! /s

People really need to remember that you’re paying for the ads regardless of if you see them. The only people who lose out are those who show the ads and giving the amount of websites these days that are solely built around showing ads, I really have no sympathy for them.

The bigger question no-one seems to ask is, how much cheaper would products be if they weren’t spending trillions on ads in the first place?

It’s not that difficult… you pay an ‘ad tariff’ on every product you buy which companies then give to ad companies. So long as the ad companies can fake views that they can show companies that ‘line go up’ everyones happy… except you because everything you buy is double what it would be without advertising being rammed down your throat!

And the increase in product costs is just blamed on immigration, race or whatever other b/s people are stupid enough to believe. 🙄🤦‍♂️

[rant] The Internet is not FREE. Its just free at the point of use!

Just like ad funded websites aren’t free to use, they are also just free at the point of use!

People seem to forget where the all this ‘ad money’ comes from. It’s not growing on magic money trees, it’s coming from every product you buy and it’ll be interesting to see how much products have gone up against the sheer amount of ads that are shovelled everywhere now.

The reason the internet used to be great was because people shared information with no expectation of monetary gain. Just the love of what they knew and the joy of sharing information.

So the sooner everyone realises you’re all paying for the ads on every product/service to be shown already, and blocking them actually saves you money because the more ads that are shown, the more websites get paid, the more ad/tracking companies charge companies and yes, the more expensive you’re product and services get! [/rant]