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Do you really think it works that way? People might develop banner blindness, but subconsciously they are being bombarded with messages anyway. They are being trained to consume, to associate the sites they like to visit with certain brands, pushed products by influencers...

If ads didn't work, companies wouldn't be paying billions of dollars per year. The only way to fight it is by being vigilant and block them at the source and become truly allergic to them.

>>rglull+(OP)
I do think it kind of works that way. Take a look at who is affected by blatantly fake news. It’s the people that grew up in an era where there were just a few “legitimate” news sources. People who grew up with misinformation just laugh it off.

Not saying fake news has no effect on young people but it’s definitely a huge difference.

>>rglull+(OP)
In a way, becoming allergic to the ads is the cure -- you need to immediately recognize the toxicity that stems from the emotional (rather than logical) appeals and the manipulative tactics companies use to undermine your own happiness and convince you to buy their products.

At this point I can't even go to a sports bar for a drink because being bombarded by that many ads is a legitimately stressful experience. If I'm visiting a family member who leaves the TV on in their living room, I ask if we can turn it off -- or mute it and leave the room. But I don't view these as problems: I'm recognizing a negative thing in my reality and trying to cut it out. I imagine it like a bug problem: I won't go to a bar where cockroaches are crawling all over the walls, or hang out in a room where a bunch of cockroaches are nesting in the corner. Ads are the same thing, but you have to be much vigilant to keep them out of your life because so many people have gotten used to them.

I hope folks start educating their kids at an early age to loathe ads. Middle schools and high schools ought to dissect ads in a dedicated (health?) class that showcases the manipulation tactics companies use to control viewers. But parents can do the same thing, knowing that school systems take literal centuries to adapt to new technology.

>>yunwal+I1
> People who grew up with misinformation just laugh it off.

It does not make them immune to other types of disinformation or manipulation tactics. To think that you are so smart to be beyond that is just hubris.

>>rglull+Y5
> Not saying it has no effect on young people

Please read the comment before replying

>>yunwal+Yk2
Please don't write comments with bold assertions (younger people are less susceptible to ads because they are more familiar with the internet) and then use sneaky caveats to try to back off of those assertions.

>>rglull+hD2
My assertion is that there is a huge difference between how easy it is to manipulate someone who grew up with ubiquitous marketing vs. someone that did not. Enough that it will become a defining part of generational gaps. The only reason you think I’m backing off of my assertion is because you’re putting words in my mouth

>>yunwal+vN9
> huge difference between how easy it is to manipulate someone who grew up with ubiquitous marketing vs. someone that did not.

That is an absurd assertion and you are showing an incredible amount of hubris if you think you are somehow "harder to manipulate because you've grown up with ubiquitous marketing".