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If the performance weakness continues for a week or two, the agency would start recommending decreasing spend with Reddit or directing it to other platforms.

After the blackout, we will be closely monitoring user behavior on Reddit and guide clients when we can unpause,โ€ said Freddy Dabaghi, managing director at Stagwell-backed Crispin Porter Bogusky, which has asked clients to stop campaigns, depending on their client goals.

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[-] lornami@crystals.rest 50 points 2 years ago

Advertising on the internet has always been pretty awful. I wish it would just stop.

[-] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.fmhy.ml 42 points 2 years ago

The problem is that they always want more. It's not enough to make money. So the ads and intrusive garbage gets worse and worse until we reach an unusable nightmare.

TV shows have banner ads during the show. Everyone wants to send you notifications. Even cars are starting to have ads on their screens.

It's exhausting.

[-] minimar@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago

Corporations don't want to make a little money, they don't want to make enough money, they don't want to make a lot of money, they want to make all the money.

[-] shani77@lemmy.fmhy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

We really shoulda nipped that bullshit in the bud decades ago.

[-] plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 years ago

Tuned into watch Nhl this year. My god. There are fast moving full colour animations on the boards. Right in the middle of the action in one of the fastest moving contact sports with a tiny puck you're trying to keep track of. It's unwatchable. Had to just use it like a radio station and only watch when there was a highlight.

[-] dan1101@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Unless you want to pay something for every site you visit ads are a necessary inconvenience. Otherwise why would businesses pay to host interesting content for free?

[-] gmmxle@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Otherwise why would businesses pay to host interesting content for free?

See, I think that's the problem.

Wikipedia is one of the all-time great projects on the internet, and it keeps chugging along all without forcing miserable ads on its users or charging them a subscription fee or selling their data to the highest bidder.

And their donation drives are perfectly fine, and I'm perfectly willing to give them some money every now and then as long as they're asking for what is needed to keep the site up and running.

Maybe not everything should be run as a for-profit business, with an overriding goal of monetizing clicks and maximizing profits?

[-] LawnMooser@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

You know before websites became the norm to access informations, the main way to follow topics of interest was both newspapers and publications, and those required subscription or a price anyway. Since i did not grow up with the internet all the time, i used offline means to get informations, and i am fine with it. I never needed reddit as a primary source of informations, i can cut down my usage of it by 100%. If we want quality we still need to pay for it, with few exceptions most free sites just exist for ads.

[-] Ichebi@lemmy.pt 5 points 2 years ago

Wikipedia and Archives Of Our Own have entered the chat

[-] Ataraxia@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

It's obnoxious and has made me never want to see ads ever again. I'm OK with seeing something useful like a local ad for deals on a local food place or Safeway deals or something, toys and videogames maybe even movies but I shouldn't have to let them data mine me for targeted ads that end up being repetitive and constant. When living in italy we may have had programming that wouldn't start on time or not at all but at least it wasn't interrupted by ads. I was so confused as a kid seeing gargoyles have a weird spot or two where it would cut off with a dramatic reaction shot then continue with the same or similar one. I had no idea that's where ads went. I have no idea who ads work on but whoever you are stop buying stuff just because you saw an ad please lol!

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