i used to slap my crew’s tags and qrs on random fruits and vegetable in the supermarkets all the time. the trick is to keep it low and have someone to divert attention while you dance around the section trying to appear merely clueless and not mischievous.
I used to put QR code stickers on random things that points to the lemon party website. Which was 3 old guys sucking each other off on the home screen.
now that’s a correct use of QR code stickers!
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
Fuck. Now there’s an ad on my Lemmy
yeah blur that fucking shit out before posting. there are kids on here.
I suddenly have an overwhelming subconscious desire to subscribe to Hulu or tune my broadcast television to ABC to watch a TV show called Abbott Elementary 🤔
At least this advertising makes sense…if it was someone like Pluribus, I wouldn’t trust those apples.
Curious, they have been putting ads on the sticker on bananas like this since the 90s ish.
Longer ago than that. I was sticking them on the inside of my kitchen cabinet in high school in the mid-70s.
Nothing new, I remember ads on banana stickers 15 years ago
I once saw an ad for a guitar that had been sticker-bombed, and the guy had stuck his banana stickers on the back of his headstock. There were dozens of them, lots of different promotional ones.
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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.
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.
And then after just a couple of viral internet posts about it, it is a complete success.
I’m almost positive those apples would be cheaper because they are ad supported. Right?
The revenue was pocketed because the cost of printing a bigger sticker and in color was passed on to you.
I’d rather have this than the unskippable & unmutable commercials yelling at me at the gas pumps. I’m just trying to get gas.
Look at how you’ve been conditioned… “I’d rather be slapped in the face than kicked in the balls!”
ow, my balls!
Well, I would. 🤷🏻♂️
Well said!
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
Define “define got water” here because all I recall is people complaining. I have not heard that they faced and consequences.
Only brand loyal customers are buying those teash brands. Ads isn’t going to effect sales.
And I can always replace it. Charging stations are not complicated. And they don’t need connections to the internet to run.
OpenEVSE if you like tinkering or supporting open source.
I just threw a Shelly on my grizzl-e classic.
Is that a thing? Why don’t you just not ever use that brand of station again?
That’s half of all stations in my neck of the US. It’s 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 that’s why I go there.
Start punching the screens.
They change quick.
If it’s only half, then you have a choice.
If i have to stop unexpectedly and it’s one with ads, I’m putting $5 and bouncing to another one i prefer.
considering how prevalent gas stations are, taking half away still leaves you with quite a few options
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…
Oh my god, that’s truly vile
If even people using Lemmy still go to those with ads, I can see how they win in general.
Thats the free market cooking at its finest now :D
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.
Unfortunately, the one near me is the only source I know that supplies EtOH free gas (the blue handle).
What kind of weird antique car do you daily that can’t handle E10 gas?
I mean, let’s be honest: the vast majority of people who insist on that don’t actually need it; they just think lower emissions are “woke” or some shit like that.
I use it in my smaller recreational “toys”: ATV, snowblower for the ATV, motorcycle, backup generator. Those sorts of things. It’s not about not handling the normal stuff. I was under the impression that the EtOH stuff was better on the engines. Not a car guy, myself.
It’s going to be much worse very soon.
There are new parents superimpose ads on existing video streams.
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.
They removed the ability to mute the ads, like, maybe a year ago is the first time I noticed it was gone. If they play ads I will put headphones in and turn my back to the screen. Ads like this feel fucking abusive.
…i’d carry a hammer and awl if mine did that…
Yup. Doesn’t work for me either, anymore.
yeah I don’t buy gas at those places. if I pull up and there’s an annoying ad on screen, I just get back in my car and keep driving (after I give the location a one star review and note the ads)
2 problems - 1) The ads don’t usually start until after I’ve started pumping gas, and 2) the locally owned stations that don’t have these ads (and those are getting fewer and farther between) are more expensive by a good bit.
None of the EV chargers have ads, how long do you think that will last?
I saw one last Friday
The US: Truly the land of the free, and the home of the brave.
Right column, second row.
Press that to mute the ad.
A lot of gas stations have disabled the mute button now, but it’s still worth a shot
if it doesn’t work, just press harder. directly on the screen. might need something solid to register the press, those buttons can get gunked up over time and especially in the winter are hard to press. In fact, you might need to hit it to kind of break it free. the tire iron in your trunk is perfect for this. just make sure that you hit the screen dead center so you hit the switch accurately
The one near me that I use is kind of weird. If you pay at the pump before fueling up it gives you an ad but if you prepay inside and then fuel up it doesn’t give you an ad. I guess because if you go inside you’re seeing ads or are tempted to buy something? Much nicer to not have to listen to the ad though.
mute = second button down on the right
As others have noted, that doesn’t work anymore at most stations. Muting has been disabled.
…guess i’m fortunate not yet to have encountered a disabled-mute pump…
Do not buy those apples.
Vote with your wallet and be loud as fuck about it
I don’t like Abbott Elementary Apples anyway.
Is it a show that streams on Apple TV?
No those are only advertised on Macintosh
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 doesn’t make it okay. And it’s not even clever, it’s 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 it’s “clever” and “not too big”? 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
Subaru is selling cars during the holiday season by telling a totally unrelated story about teens with cancer who are going to die before their prom. Easily the most exploitive commercial on TV.
And how is buying a Subaru going to cure cancer?
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.
Consensual advertising is ok. You make a website for your business that I visit because I search for or advertise in the yellow pages or whatever it is fine. I sought out information and you are listed in a directory.
The problem of course is gaming these systems. SEO and shit. Some people will pay a great deal of money to be listed first. What’s fair? Is alphabetical fair? Does that give an advantage to “Aaron”? I don’t know. But we aren’t even at the point where this is a real discussion so it doesn’t matter I guess.
Otherwise the advertising profession has consistently shown that they have no ethics whatsoever and if you give them an inroad into your thing they will overtake and destroy it. The radio, newspaper, tv, internet, outdoors, literally everything. All the privacy concerns we have online tie back to advertising fucks and government overreach.
Well said.
There will always be slop advertisements. I avoid traditional advertising by pirating or paying for an ad free version. I do still watch ads in the form of product reviews and such. There are great products that I found through advertising that I otherwise wouldn’t.
There is a lot of awful advertising and I’m numb to it, my brain doesn’t even register it.
The problem is bad advertising works. My job is related to the text messaging industry. We have clients that spent six figures on sending marketing messages, for every dollar they are spending on text marketing they are making 5x more in profit.
I like to think that there will be a shift in advertising towards more thoughtful placement as consumers learn to ignore but honestly I think that’s my own bias. Most people are susceptible to slop advertisements and so the slop will continue.
Your job sucks fuck you
I used to feel this way too. But, there are worse things to be.
Why is it not ok?
it probably would be fine in a time were advertisements weren’t tied with cancer in favorability polls. nevertheless here we are and it is NOT ok.
It’s an add on a barcode sticker that’s already going to be there. There’s adds that are annoying or intrusive, and then there’s adds that are like this, and no one cares about.
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I agree. And I fucking hate ads as well as never seen that show
It’s a fun show and even more fun if you’ve ever worked in education.
Ad!!! Jk
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.
It’s a very low bar to set for yourself.
Lol, never enough ads…
