Stefano Marinelli on Nostr: This morning I woke up and checked my email from my phone. Some emails, some ...
This morning I woke up and checked my email from my phone. Some emails, some newsletters I never subscribed to. Went for breakfast, listened to some news on pay TV and was greeted by ads. Drove my car and the integrated Android Automotive navigator showed sponsored activities en route. Arrived and walked for 20 minutes, passing buses full of ads and billboards. Read some news on my phone and even with a blocking DNS, I saw various ads. Later, went shopping, needless to say, I was submerged in ads. Meanwhile, four or five calls from spammers, obviously. Got home and nearby, a car with a megaphone advertising a circus. While dining, watched some YouTube videos. Ads now outweigh content. Opened Facebook, sponsored content is more than my friends' posts. Opened Mastodon and... nothing, no ads, just content. Not sure if I should be moved or bewildered, but one thing's clear: from dawn to dusk, we're continuously bombarded with ads. Or perhaps we're being profiled and becoming even more a part of the system. Can this really sustain or are we hitting saturation, where this bombardment doesn't achieve its aim but pushes us to reject?
#AdOverload #DigitalLife #AdSaturation #MastodonDifference #AdFreeExperience
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