All addiction advertising should be illegal… Imagine struggling with withdrawal and giving up, and then cigarettes appear, bam!
Or alcohol - addicts actually need that shit to get through the day. The offramp for these things needs planning and consistency and this is just reinforcing the impulses
The south park alcohol ad is too real.
Sometimes merely purchasing things is an addiction, one that many members of my family have. Adtech feels like a weapon designed to exploit anxiety and dopamine pathways.
Adtech feels like a weapon designed to exploit anxiety and dopamine pathways.
It kind of is
Hey addicts! Here’s some inspiration
My great grandfather started smoking when he was very young. One day he got a call from his wife’s doctor that she had asthma.
He quit smoking cold turkey half way through a cigarette and kept that half-empty pack of cigarettes with one half-smoked on his dresser for the rest of his life and never touched tobacco again.
You can stop drinking and smoking, do it!
Who knew it was so easy?
Step 1: stop doing it.
Step 2: Don’t stop stop doing it
Ahhh the secret second step. Now it’s easy
Never stop never stopping
I was listening to this podcast that had an ad for a government system to help out people experiencing substance use (specifically alcohol) issues…directly followed by a government liquor store ad. In every single episode.
Wait, they’re really doing that?
I’m using the Boost app for Lemmy which has a one time fee to disable all ads. If you’re sticking around it may be worth the investment if you’re avoiding temptation. Stay sober my dude.
I’m using Voyager for Lemmy which doesn’t have ads or in app purchases.
Neither does Memmy for Lemmy. Plus it has a cute name
I’m using jerboa. Its free and open source. I have never seen an ad and never paid any money.
There are no ads on Lemmy anyway. Why are you being asked to pay for that?
Some app devs are setting up their own ad networks, injecting inline ads similar to how reddit operated. I know everyone needs to eat, but it’s kinda lame when most lemmy instances the apps connect to are operated and funded purely by the generosity of random system admins.
I suspect most are using Google built in AD network for ease of use.
I don’t mind using ads or payment to remove them for apps. Some of those Devs spend a lot of time working on them.
Well, sure Google ads or whatever. I just meant it’s independent from the Lemmy platform and instance.
or any of the other lemmy apps that start without ads…
i still haven’t heard a compelling reason to use that one other than “it’s what I was already used to on Reddit”
Lots of customization options and yeah, it’s what we know. I’m comfortable with how the app organizes stuff and am happy to support the dev.
Connect has been rock solid and ad free with no purchases required.
I like this meme. You did good.
