There are lots of cultural opposition movements online, like against work exploitation, consummerism, car culture, surveillance, intellectual property, etc. I can find communities on lemmy for all those topics. But regarding a more general opposition to advertisements and marketing, other than the occasional person telling others to use adblockers online (what about ads in every day life?), I fail to see organized attempts to challenge advertisements. There is a lot that can be scrutinized. Ethical concerns such as manipulation, lack of consent and just the simple fact your attention is for sale. The effects range from damage to environment, to our mental health, to harming industries themselves, lowering product quality and maintaining monopolies.
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lvxferre@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 259d
Quexotic@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 258d
This is a good idea, there's an anti bulldog community, there's a fuck cars community, maybe make a community?
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 258d
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 258d
dbzer0 is a good one for it. I could try to make one.
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 258d
Quexotic@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 257d
I vote fuck ads.
It's a little bit derivative but there's a fuck trucks fuck bulldogs I think, fuck AI and like I mentioned before fuck cars. It might actually make it a lot easier to remember.
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 257d
Pizza_Rat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 257d
EyeAmNotForSale
DougHolland@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 256d
I am the filthiest fucking fuckmouth you'll ever fucking meet, but I'd suggest avoiding "fuck" in the name. It's like a fucking wall or a locked fucking door, that keeps too many folks away or fucking tells them not to take the fucking idea seriously.
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 255d
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 259d
After you start it, trying to get the word out kinda butts heads with the objective, no?
Quexotic@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 258d
Well, I can't remember the last time saw one, so I'd say it's doing just fine.
faultyproboscus@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 257d
I guarantee there is one within the room you're in while reading this. From my desk, I can see 9 ads. I'm counting brand logos as advertisements, because they are.
Quexotic@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 257d
Branding and ads are distinctly different. I'll have to disagree with you on that.
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 257d
!subvertising@lemmy.blahaj.zone
ruuster13@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 258d
The entire world generally runs on a capitalist/free market economy. Free markets rely on advertising. There's no feasible way to remove advertising from the equation without other radical systemic change. Massively increased regulation sounds slightly more feasible, but not if we keep barreling in the direction of oligarchy.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 257d
With as tech illiterate as normies are, no. It takes a lot of work to try to live ad free today.
I can help them out as much as I can but its their choice to stay in walled garden social media and use 3 corporate websites on the whole internet, of course theyre going to be spammed with ads
notsosure@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 259d
They had that in the ussr.