Are you sick of online advertising yet?

Did you know that Cable TV averages about 16 minutes of advertising per hour? That means that more than 25% of the time you are watching TV you are being programmed to buy some service or product. That comes out to around 40-50 adverts an hour. I hear you, who cares about TV right? What about online advertising?

Well it gets better, we see around 5,000 as of 2018. Yes, 5,000 adverts a day on average online, but there’s a problem here. With online content, everything has seemed to drift wildly in the direction of every single item you see or touch is an advertisement. Ad agencies even go as far as creating fake viral content, making you believe it is real content and posting it to real accounts, and then still selling you inside those ads. Heck even most of the content we consume now online is purely to sell something but we don’t even notice. Just take a moment and think about it. With traditional media, this isn’t the case. There is a solid line between, “Hey I’m selling you a product” and “Hey heres some actual media/content”. For example on the radio you hear an advertising break and you know it’s time to turn the radio down, but with Facebook, how can you tell the difference between Volvo selling you a car through some viral video of some guy talking about his daughter being in a car wreck with sad music and it seem fully authentic and an actual viral video of the same quality? You simply can’t.

With YouTube now testing multiple ads before a video ends, Facebook hard injecting Ad’s into videos, Ad’s every third post on your time lime, ads in every search, upsells literally everywhere you go, your inbox filled with non stop adverts, even text messages trying to sell you things. Heck even the people that claim to help you sell things, are selling you things! It’s constant, buy this, buy that, do this, do that. The internet is inundated with non-stop ads. Guys even the end of this write up, I am going to try and sell you something, but this sell is actually for the betterment of humanity as a whole, trust me.

We have all been sucked into a constant feedback loop, and are constantly being told what exactly we need and what we want and how we want it and when we want it. Social norms are driven by companies and small groups of people that tell us how to dress, what to eat, and what is right and wrong.

MySpace. Yahoo. Actual content on YouTube. Napster. AOL. Yeah.

Is the internet actually better now? Probably so. Does the content suck? You tell me. I could make this write up 100 miles long, really I could, but I think the whole point of this write up was to see what everyone else’s opinion was. Do you feel like the internet has changed for the better? Are you sick of advertising?

Well, You know I actually thought about this one for a while and I read alot about ad blockers and other things that can combat this problem. I actually read a few more articles right before I even wrote this one that contained alot of information about ad blockers and how to stop ads on the internet, but that is just a bandaid to a gunshot wound. Without social change we cannot stop the bombardment of non-stop advertising and trust me it isn’t going to stop anytime soon. I’ve thrown around quite a few ideas and even have some things in the works that I will be pushing soon. Something I can truly get behind and hopefully you can too... Let me leave you with this question. Would you rather see advertisements at their current rate or pay a small fee for only the content you use and when you use it?

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