• garbagebagel@lemmy.world
    1·
    5 months ago

    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.

  • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de
    1·
    5 months ago

    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!

  • Mister Neon@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    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.

      • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        5 months ago

        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.

        • Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          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.

  • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    0·
    5 months ago

    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

    • NuclearDolphin@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      5 months ago

      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.

      • qaz@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 months ago

        Adtech feels like a weapon designed to exploit anxiety and dopamine pathways.

        It kind of is

  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netEnglish
    0·
    5 months ago

    Welcome.

    I’ve been here a year and it’s great. Prior to leaving Reddit, I was really disenfranchised with their community. Everyone on Reddit are insanely negative, pedantic fuck weasels. Subs were rife with bots that posted the same banal content, and turned into giant echo chambers. It was near impossible to have an opinion contrary to the popular one.

    Lemmy is smaller, but our content is great and our communities are very friendly. You get to be you without much worry of some dickcheese jumping down your throat.

    You’re gonna like it here

    • LittleBorat2@lemmy.ml
      0·
      5 months ago

      I alway wonder if people browse the main reddit site and not their own feed. Reddit is shit but that’s mostly just the look and feel.

      • frostysauce@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        Yeah, browsing my own curated subs on old.reddit with RES and uBlock Origin is nowhere near as bad as people are making reddit out to be. Don’t get me wrong, reddit IS shit, but my experience isn’t the kind of shit people say it is.

        • Instigate@aussie.zone
          1·
          5 months ago

          I always used to use a 3PA that had no ads or recommendations, just my own curated sub list, and I honestly loved that. There were definitely echo chambers but things worked well for me as long as I stayed conscious to that. Then when the APIpocalypse happened I browsed reddit on the web and in their official app for the first time in almost ten years and just noped right the fuck off.

          At one point in my feed it went:

          • Ad
          • Suggested Subreddit
          • Ad
          • Suggested Post
          • Post from subscribed feed
          • Ad
          • Suggested Post

          Like, only 1/6 items were things I had actually asked to see. It was atrocious. Default reddit is absolutely cancer now, and I really struggle to empathise with people who are still using it vanilla without any extensions or domain changes.