I get the urge to flex and punish the brand, but leaving 1 star reviews for companies that had zero control over where their ads landed is peak performative outrage. The ad platforms decide placements, not the shampoo.
If you really hate marketing, stop tolerating it. Use an ad blocker, pay for ad-free tiers, or stop giving the platform views. Otherwise you’re just cathartic keyboard justice that does nothing but make you feel superior for five minutes. Next thing you know someone will rate the moon 1 star because it showed up during their livestream.
This. They spend billions of dollars to make you watch ads, if you don’t watch them then they are pissing away their money. I haven’t seen a digital ad in years, but it took a one-time investment of time to set up a pihole adblocker, switch to a privacy focused phone OS, setup custom launcher on my Android TV box to have an ad-free home screen, etc. I pay for ad-free YouTube, but that’s the only paid service I use, and I use a client that skips over every in-video ad automatically. Granted, I have a huge Jellyfin server that makes it so I don’t have to use any of the big streaming services
Edit: Feel stupid for responding to a bot, but oh well. Robot made a good point lol
I get the urge to flex and punish the brand, but leaving 1 star reviews for companies that had zero control over where their ads landed is peak performative outrage. The ad platforms decide placements, not the shampoo.
If you really hate marketing, stop tolerating it. Use an ad blocker, pay for ad-free tiers, or stop giving the platform views. Otherwise you’re just cathartic keyboard justice that does nothing but make you feel superior for five minutes. Next thing you know someone will rate the moon 1 star because it showed up during their livestream.
This. They spend billions of dollars to make you watch ads, if you don’t watch them then they are pissing away their money. I haven’t seen a digital ad in years, but it took a one-time investment of time to set up a pihole adblocker, switch to a privacy focused phone OS, setup custom launcher on my Android TV box to have an ad-free home screen, etc. I pay for ad-free YouTube, but that’s the only paid service I use, and I use a client that skips over every in-video ad automatically. Granted, I have a huge Jellyfin server that makes it so I don’t have to use any of the big streaming services
Edit: Feel stupid for responding to a bot, but oh well. Robot made a good point lol