Yes, but

One's an active decision and one is forced upon them. They are not the same.

One’s an active decision
There are not so many quality notebooks without any brand-logos on them.
Also wearing a brand-logo when you have the choice not to, is kinda cringe.
- I don't necessarily agree. If a brand makes high quality stuff I'm not gonna avoid them just because they put their logo on their stuff. I have a kickass Adidas backpack from 2014 that is by far my favorite, and I'll be damned if I'm gonna get rid of it just because it has an Adidas logo on it.
  I also have perfectly good clothes with various brands on them, and I'm not just gonna throw them away because that's wasteful as hell. I don't go out of my way to buy stuff with brands on them, but that won't stop me from buying something I genuinely like and find to be high quality.
- I want to see if I can find a quality Gateway 2000 decal I can stick on my next laptop so nobody touches it.
- Agreed on both, though if I ever get a personnal macbook (which I'm definitely considering, their silicon is so good), it's definitely gonna involve a sticker

Adblock lol

(If you are still using Adblock, I beg you, switch to ublock origin. Adblock takes money from advertisers to not block their shit.)

Adblock user = noob
I read the comic as referring to adblocking software as opposed to any specific extension. I can't pinpoint what gives me that idea though so who knows
- That's weird because it's both the icon of the app, and the exact name.
I'm using adblock plus (not sure if it's the same one), I've never seen an ad not be blocked by it. Where does this happen?
uBlock origin was just taken down for me, automatically uninstalled. I've returned to my noob roots and gotten Adblock in the meantime, and MAN is it just not the same as uBlock

I don’t run Adblock because I hate brands, I use it because the internet is more invasive by the day.

If one day I go to put on my shirt and another company sewed their logo over the neck hole, well then we’ll have a similar issue.

You go to reach for a coffee and the wrist hole of your sleeve suddenly accordions over your entire hand as an ad unfurls from your shoulder.
- I open the toilet seat to have a pee, a three foot flag unfurls from the ceiling, ITS HONDAFEST!
  A small corporate social media account emerges from the bowl, screaming relatable phrases it copied from r/memes. ITS GIVING SAVINGS, FAM NO CAP.
  My wife enters asking if I'm ok. I reach out for her, too late, she has become a smiling vacant eyed Summer's Eve ad. Not so fresh, I weep.
I use it because that increasing invasiveness really messes with my ADHD. Ads make me spend extra energy and concentration to filter to what I want (and I won't buy their crap anyway).

Honestly, I'm not against ads, I understand that a site with free articles needs to pay the bills somehow. The reason I use ad block is that online ads have become so intrusive that it makes websites unusable, and the way they track you is way over the line. If ads didn't completely destroy the experience of reading a website and were reasonable in the data they collected I probably wouldn't bother with ad block.

Good take
I wouldn't even be against sharing some information so they could give me better ads
I'm not in the market for a new car. I don't need car ads.
But knowing I shop at Something Hardware a lot and they are having a spring black friday sale on the tool I've been eyeing would be nice.
Even still Something Hardware just slapping their logo in an ad is not helpful at all.
If ads were helpful they wouldn't be annoying
- The website you’re on gives that information
  They don’t need to track for that
  Eg. Looking at car reviews, here’s a car ad. Watching the news? Here’s a gun ad
- But that's not what they're for. They exist to influence you abd control you, not infirm you and help you collaborate.
When I just used a browser ad blocker I made a point to unblock sites that I wanted to support and didn't use obnoxious ads. Unfortunately for them I now use a network ad blocker too and it's more of a hassle. One of these days I might make a list of domains to unblock but at the moment I'm more concerned with figuring out how to block YouTube ads at the domain level.
- Afaik, they are unblockable. They are served from the same domain as the video, so if you block them you can't see the video either.
  Instead of blocking it at the domain level, you can install adblockers on almost any platform. I recommend uBlock for Firefox and ReVanced for Android. ReVanced is also supposed to work on Android TVs, iirc.
Yeah I'd be okay with banner ads on the side of shit. Might even feel obliged to look if they weren't fucking spying on me.
Won't happen though. Advertising is about control, and anyone looking for more is never gonna give an inch.
Fuck ads, you don't owe them anything.

I had a family member like this... They'd go off about how awful capitalism is, and the shit that goes with it (to which I'd generally agree) but have a house full of google home devices, brag about how much they buy on amazon, and simp for the giant megacorp for which they worked a retail job...

It woulda been funny if it wasn't so sad.

Let's never forget that it is ok to criticize a system you're part of.
- It sure is. Unfair examples would include:
  yet he buys groceries!
  yet he drives to work!
  yet he is complicit in the slave trade via rare earth metals in his phone!
  I did think a house full of smart speakers from the advertising behemoth is a kinda funny example though - what do you think?
According to Varoufakis, this is techno feudalism. He wrote a book about it. So arguably, it's not capitalism but by no means is it better than that
- Varoufakis is just one of many people who have come up with fancy new terms for capitalism and imperialism. It's not to say that he doesn't have an important perspective on some things, but coming up with new terms for things defined over a century ago only serves to distract.
- Wouldn't the best term be mercantilism? Power through the accumulation of wealth, but instead of nations it's now corporations. It's definitely not capitalist since capitalism is about having competition, and that doesn't happen without constant government intervention to break up monopolies and trusts.

Fair point.

Though counterpoint: if someone is willing to spend $3000+ on an apple computer and cool swag. The ads already worked.

However, if the Q/A on your product is so bad, that someone who spends $3000+ would rather install an ad-block to get rid of that experience, maybe the quality assurance on those ads or products aren't as good as people think.

Blocking ads is your duty and obligation. It is my honor to make sure every cent these companies spend on it is wasted. Stay Blocking my friends.

Hmm, whether PPC or PPI (pay per click / impression), I don’t believe advertisers are spending anything on you. I believe it’s whoever is paying the web host who’s losing, and it’s potential revenue instead of an expenditure.
- Certain ad blockers click ads for you. Assuming these clicks aren't registered as coming from a bot (a big assumption, I know), then those clicks should count as interactions on the ads.
True but don't forget that we probably enjoy the benefits of ad-based internet. If way more people would adblock than currently, then a lot of sites may need to resort to paywalled or whatever other type of monetisation. Happy UbO user tho.

I hate buying any clothing with a brand name visible, but for certain types of item like sports clothes it’s almost impossible.

I just want plain coloured t shirts / abstract geometric patterns without annoying words!
Oh my god its so fucking annoying!
Buy Chinese knockoffs, they are cheaper and have random brand names. Lol

I'd rather choose my own poison than having them shoved in my face with auto play audio when I'm looking for porns. Thank you.

wow plural, you must be good!
- He's good son, real good! Maybe even the best.

Ha! I finally have the right place to brag about my anti logo wearing lifestyle!

Regardless of anti-corporatism sentiments, it's just good fashion sense anyway.

Maybe I can grift a nice bounty developing AR glasses which patch out all the brands on clothes and places in real-time.

Don't forget to put a brand logo on them so that others can easily see it.
Just wait till the corpos have their hands on that, theyll make it do the opposite

Change that to a hat with a stage musical logo, and a metal band shirt, and this is me.

But when it comes to clothes, I can choose which ads I serve :)

I'm generally pretty covered in metal (and punk for the last couple years) band logos. It's less of a side effect of buying clothing and more of a choice to directly support artists while giving them free advertising.
Don't know what I was getting at tbh, I agree with you.
- Why do I know you have a Mastadon shirt..
Wearing band logos are very different to wearing brand logos. A band logo stands for something that you love, a brand is just capitalist nihilism; completely meaningless except signaling how much your garment costs and perhaps that you are stupid enough to believe that buying a certain brand says something about you or aligns you with something. Branding is for cattle.
- I have a shirt that says Democracy Delivers with a picture of a plane dropping bombs...it's not a band shirt but I think it's as neat as my band shirts...but truth be told Grindcore band shirts are usually pretty off-putting visually but most of the time strive to actually make a point

I wouldn’t have a problem with adverts if there was a guarantee of no malware, no phishing, no scams.

They cry about not being able to serve ads while serving ads that are straight malware and scams. It’s especially funny when a platform goes out of their way to censor (suppress ad revenue) on videos which have even a chance of being misinformation and then proceed to play back to back ads of somebody selling their get rich quick webinar.
- On YouTube, AI Musk has been telling me every other day about some amazing get rich quick scheme. I report it and days later YouTube emails me saying “Our investigation concluded that this is not a scam or spam”. As if.
Also if they were just less intrusive, a little static banner ad is fine
The best part is that more ethical ads are harder to block, because trackers are one of the easiest ways to identify ads.
Hell, the adblocker I use (adnauseam) doesn't block ethical ads by default.
- What are ethical ads?

If that dude’s outfit was animated and played noise, and the guy jumped in front of whatever I was looking at and wouldn’t go away, and sometimes he put random shit in my pockets or got me sick, then I’d hate that guy just as much as internet ads

If I was paid to wear a logo then sure but to spend money on a shirt of a logo seems weird to me.

I laughed at the meme, but I also bought branded merch from a brewery whose beer I don't even drink (unless I'm already drunk) because I was in their gift shop.

Are those eclipse glasses?

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