I'd rather have this than the unskippable & unmutable commercials yelling at me at the gas pumps. I'm just trying to get gas.
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Is that a thing? Why don't you just not ever use that brand of station again?Β
Thatβs half of all stations in my neck of the US. Itβs hard to escape
Same, so I go to the other half. They tend to be the smaller owner-operated ones, so if I go inside to buy something, I mention how much I appreciate the lack of ads and that thatβs why I go there.
Start punching the screens.
They change quick.
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They sadly have become far more uncommon, at least in the US. I can maybe only recollect a handful of gas stations that dont have them anymore...
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It's a thing, and it's a thing at most corporate gas stations in my area. And most corporate stations have the cheapest gas prices - which I guess explains why they run ads.
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One more reason I'm happy EVs exist. No ads at my home charger.
Yet
Only my smart fridge, vacuum cleaner, phone, A/C control panel, front door smart lock, and reclining bed. But not in my dreams!
Stellantis just got in hot water for pushing ads to the screens in Jeep and Chrysler cars. So... Just you wait. Even if it doesn't show you ads now, they can always update it.
not limited to EVs though
but yes, this is one reason I won't buy a car with tech like that
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I've run into this a couple times and there's usually a mute button. The ones I've seen have two columns of 4 buttons and is usually column 2 button 3. It shouldn't be a thing but I make it a point to mute it every time
Yeah, that used to be the thing, but now in my area most of them have done away with the mute button. I've also tried pushing all of the buttons down both sides, but it still blares me. If there weren't cameras at the pumps, I'd pull out my pocket knife and stab the speakers.
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Do not buy those apples.
Vote with your wallet and be loud as fuck about it
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Not much different than the bananas with Disney characters on them. This has been a thing for a long time now. It just happens to be a Hulu ad and not Disney specific.
There were Star Wars branded oranges in supermarkets back when ~~the prequels~~ The Force Awakens was coming out.
Edit: Got my timeline wrong. Still, it's been a while.
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Abbot Elementary apple sticker ads are clever, minimally invasive and I argue that this is what advertising should be.
This is a creative, tongue in cheek ad for a comedy about school teachers. Teachers stereotypically are given apples so its related.
You cannot compare this to the Pluribus fridge ads or car infotainment ads which make no sense other than "get more eyes on it".
An ad being clever doesnβt make it okay. And itβs not even clever, itβs just a basic reference. Ads being more pervasive are disgusting. This is disgusting. Is it okay for ads to be on literally every single surface in existence as long as itβs βcleverβ and βnot too bigβ? Because the scum fucks in advertising firms will literally do whatever they can to cover every surface in garbage and this is just another step in that direction.
Fuck all advertising and destroy all advertisers. They will destroy everything in their path otherwise
Kind of a philosophical question from your response: is any type of advertising OK? I don't doubt that advertisers can and will continue to pollute every inch of our lives, but in a vacuum this is basically an ideal ad. Its minimal, clever, untargeted, temporary, for a decent show, and not massively over produced or jarring. To me, those aspects make it OK and I won't complain.
However, there's simply not enough opportunities like this for advertising to exist as an ethical profession. There's no point cheering it on or "voting with your wallet", it's not possible for 90% of products to have this serendipity. But I can't say "fuck all advertising" when it does technically serve a purpose and can very occasionally be done in an ethical and interesting way. I'd rather see this specific post than the majority of banal memes on my feed.
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Considering it's just taking up space on a normal sticker, and it doesn't track you, this isn't that bad honestly. I wish this was the worst.
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Is it a show that streams on Apple TV?
No those are only advertised on Macintosh
Fuck. Now there's an ad on my Lemmy
yeah blur that fucking shit out before posting. there are kids on here.
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I'm not even mad at this, it's creative and not intrusive. I'd assume it's a cheeky reference to the old thing about giving your teacher an apple on the first day of school.
I'd much rather see playful, physical ads like this than the targeted shit online.
Or you could decide as a nation not to bend over and accept the insistent thrusts of commerce at every opportunity.
Imagine how much more peaceful life would be if we banned advertising.
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Yeah, at least you can ignore this. Itβs not some unskippable demand for money screaming into you brain.
No, it's an unskippable demand for money insinuating itself into your brain...
Completely different, agreed.
Advertising is a company laundering technique for wealth transfer, they use speculative projections to sell your eye space alone, give the pass for the image, and profiteer internally instead of contributing to the economy outside of the bubble, it's been the case on the Internet for years and years
And now you're showing it to us instead of chucking it at the nearest physicist.
Do you mean physician like the "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" thing?
Or do you just harbor animosity towards people who study physics?
I meant like Alec Newtons.
That's kind of amazing that this ad campaign got off the ground.
Someone in marketing had to have that idea (it's an apple for the teacher, right? So we tie it to a show about a school, see?), then sell it through the entire corporate chain for approval from the top. Then someone in graphics had to design the prototype sticker. Then someone in sales had to identify who to sell it to, make the pitch, and close the deal.
So how much new viewership can ABC hope to get from this? How much money does the apple distributor get for this? The answer to both gas to be "Not much." It seems like a lot of effort for not a lot of gain for anyone involved, except maybe the sale guy who gets a nice commission.
It just occurred to me that I probably have it backwards. ABC thought of the apple tie-in for their popular school show, and pitched apple companies until one agreed.
Welcome to my thought process.
Hopefully Apple doesnβt put Pluribus ads on fruit. That one lady named Carol would lose her poor mind.
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My pizza box had one too. Crazy thing is I bet it fucking works on some people.
Well we're all here talking about it, ain't we?
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Lol, never enough ads...
I'm almost positive those apples would be cheaper because they are ad supported. Right?
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