@stevenaleach@universeodon.com
2026-04-07 20:05 UTC
I just realized that I've *never* actually watched a single video ad on the internet in my entire life.
I use YouTube and block those ads, and most others are blocked too - & I close any video immediately when any ads/sponsor messages/spammy stuff in general happen.
I can't actually imagine what it would be like to actually watch an ad on a computer. That's just something I remember from back in the age of TV when I was a kid - I hated it then and am glad that it seems to have entirely died out as far as I can tell from my day-to-day and year-to-year experience.
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@stevenaleach@universeodon.com 2026-04-07 20:08
Audio stuff is different - I "hear" ads on NPR all the time... except they're ads, so I'm not really *hearing* them because they just become something I'm generally aware is happening but that I tune out. That's just how human brains *work*, right? I have things I wanna think about so until there's a change in sound that cues me in that we're back to real content, I just tune out could almost never tell you what product and/or service any of those ads were for or what was said in them.