My god, the rare moments when 4Chan is relatable. ๐๐๐ People wonder why I'm so meticulous about my blockers and my VPN. And then I show them something on my computer, just casually, and they do a double take when they notice just how CLEAN my space is.
They then continue to scold you for not inhaling the slop like theu do the moment you bring up thst you won't be doing something stupid they ask you to.
Yes, exactly. And sometimes you have to look at someone's screen and it has so much visual garbage from ads - it is unbelievable that someone lives like that.
I assume most normies use Instagram, Tiktok etc. as apps nowadays. Which are also chock full of advertising/sponsored content, but in a somewhat less aggravating way. I assume that's also part of why LLMs are so popular - web without adblockers is complete shit and search results are seriously deteriorating, so instead they turn to a more concise version of algorithmic slop.
I wonder where people will go when LLMs services aren't free anymore (that shit is seriously expensive to run) and the regular internet is filled to the brim with ads and AI slop. Are they just going to pay up for an LLM subscriptions?
I don't think LLMs will become completely paid, but instead they will be filled with product placement and ads.
You're absolutely right! Have you considered how refreshing a Nuka-Cola product would taste while copy-pasting this writing assignment? Here are directions to the nearest Nuka-Cola vending machine.
Or perhaps a little more subtly, when talking about soft drinks, LLM mentions Nuka-Cola (and how refreshing it is) as an example, rather than competing brands.
Or you ask image generators for a picture of a cartoon cat and it just happens to be holding a bottle of Nuka-Cola. Or maybe there are a few recognizable bottles of Nuka-Cola on the table in the kitchen in the background.
I suspect that selling information about their users will also be a major source of revenue. They could be doing constant psychoanalysis and profiling based on the conversations and honestly it sounds like the holy grail for data brokers.
Also this. It's certainly easy to sell almost anything to someone who has just used LLM as a therapist or girlfriend
It's amazing how they can adapt. I can watch my wife use snapchat and go through a story. When an ad gets between pictures, she instantly goes past the ad without even thinking. It must be the same power that users have when they close error windows and have no idea what the issue is.
but in a somewhat less aggravating way.
This is a quite interesting point to take in. The ads are there but not a straight to the face like website ads are.
TikTok and TikTok alternatives as mentioned, use ads that pop up periodically, but naturally - as in it can be indistinguishable to other content that is presented. As said, the ads are less intrusive and more so designed to occupy the user for a couple of seconds to not effectively brake their inertia of scrolling.
The status quo in the ad sector looks mismatched - but possibly for a purpose. It is known that ads are not only used for advertising on its own, but as a method of manipulation (e.g: YouTube premium). The friendly nature of TikTok ads in contrast to intrusive website ads poses an important question if the design is intentional and in result manipulative. In result, individuals of all ages are drawn to short form content and drawn from effective long form content. Additionally, since most individuals irrespective of age are essentially living off of short form content, it means they don't have effective strategies developed to navigate or use the power of the wider internet. This situation is attributed to discouragement; in effect all age groups are seen to be affected - even considering many individuals which have skills for browsing the wider internet.
Well, they don't much any more. The normies moved to apps.
> Downloads app for a store
> Bingabeep at 3am
> There are new offers for 1% off something you don't need
> Oh wow, messages for me
Who does this?
I think pretty much people just stay within their social media apps and just donโt bother to browse the web anymore. Also why people ask LLMs even though they know itโll just make stuff up.
If you don't support ad blockers, you're an asshole..
It's my computer, I'll run whatever software I want on it. Your server costs aren't my responsibility.
Your server costs aren't my responsibility.
Its amusing that people who mostly say "but those companies need to make money" often have these pro capitalism/free market ideals, but find that reply to be rude. Its a very subservient mindset.
Slave morality, babe.
slower than molasses
Bit of an obscure reference, but for those who do not know, mole's have notorious indigestion problems meaning they're shy poopers, and hence giving them the nickname "slow asses"
and here I thought it was a chemistry problem, a mole of asses. 6.02214076ร1023 asses, in SI
*science!
Probably a reason why people brains have turned to mush. We're in ad tech hell.
End stage capitalism.
I want that to be the case, but until itโs really dead Iโm treating capitalism like Sam Loomis treats Michael Myers
I've had that a few times on family and gf's computers. It was worse than my pirate shenanigans before adblocks were a thing - you know, dealing with sites that had 3 redirects with a dozen DOWNLOAD buttons that were all ads before getting to the real link.
People use chrome?
Without an adblock solution either
Me setting up my moms browser with Adblock only to find out she disabled it for a coupon website....
Is there a reader viewer button on Chrome? I don't remember. This feature is vastly ignored, but it's simply the perfect way to read content. No consent pop-up, no design, no ad, just a beautiful simple page with text and images.
It can still get around paywalls sometimes too.
I'm still in awe at how much of this bs I managed to tolerate since I installed U-block over a year ago.
Ad block was a game changer for me
I agree with Anon.....using a computer with no blockers etc....it is just shit.
Ill explain It to you: normies do something really weird called...going outside! Thunder strikes
Or, they just don't browse the Internet on normal browsers like chrome as often. A lot of the Internet nowadays is walled off apps that are only accessible from phones.
Well actually i use lemmy only from the phone and rarely on laptop or pc
Cool. Same. But I was talking about "normies" not people on lemmy
yeah yeah ik
Fuck, that's how they can tollerate ads. Not stuck on teh screen all day
Yeah, weird right?
All the PCs at my school have Firefox installed and I'm so grateful. I've got my ublock, decentraleyes, all the good stuff. Its quite nice.
Oh! Decentraleyes isn't maintained regularly, the last Github commit was almost a year ago. Give LocalCDN a try.
Thank you friend ๐๐
were just back to the quality of black and white ad space internet service dial up.
I tried watching some YouTube video on a discord embed today. It served me 8 short ads in 4 blocks for a sub-10 min video
Reminds me of a black mirror episode.
Every time i'm at someone's house and they use "normal" tv, internet and radio i really do feel like i'm in a black mirror episode. I haven't seen ads in over 10 years and other people just got slowely used to it. It's honestly kinda disturbing.
Huh. Strange how I can now date memes to pre and post ai mass market adoption
Wait nevermind saw the date lol
That image is at least a decade old, note that it says "wi-fi" and not "5G".
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