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HAIL eSATA-n
Apr 7, 2007


i love pirating poo poo it makes me feel so alive

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HAIL eSATA-n
Apr 7, 2007


lmao if you don't adblock

HAIL eSATA-n
Apr 7, 2007


HAIL eSATA-n
Apr 7, 2007


i'm invincible

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
impractical jokers is the best TV show and Q tweeted that he doesn't care if you torrent it
so....

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome


I like ghostery

Tiny Bug Child
Sep 11, 2004

Avoid Symmetry, Allow Complexity, Introduce Terror

you fool, now our benevolent media lords won't create content catering to your specific needs and desires

Tiny Bug Child
Sep 11, 2004

Avoid Symmetry, Allow Complexity, Introduce Terror
one of my coworkers once told me he doesn't use adblock because he thinks it's kind of like stealing, and i laughed in his face before i realized he wasn't joking

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

This is a good docu on how advertising exploits psychology and you all should watch it if you have the time. The second and third parts are best iirc

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-century-of-the-self/

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

rotor posted:

I like ghostery

Supposedly ghostery uses the stats on what is blocked to sell ways to better advertise to the companies it blocks or some poo poo. I used it and like it to though and it seems easier than disconnect

fits my needs
Jan 1, 2011

Grimey Drawer

Tiny Bug Child posted:

one of my coworkers once told me he doesn't use adblock because he thinks it's kind of like stealing, and i laughed in his face before i realized he wasn't joking

maybe its some weird thing because he runs porn sites? lol

crusader_complex
Jun 4, 2012
ban all advertising of:
-stuff for children
-pharmaceuticals
-alcohol and tobacco
-payday loans and other stuff for financially distressed people

these categories of people are pandered to specifically since their decision-making faculties are impacted. stuff used to be much more restricted, and for good reasons. "we had to do this, to keep the entertainment industry afloat" is an unacceptable reason for pushing to lift those restrictions.

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

i have been watching football tonight and every single advert is for either drugs or lawyers to sue people about drugs

pagancow
Jan 15, 2001

Video Stymie

crusader_complex posted:

ban all advertising of:
-stuff for children
-pharmaceuticals
-alcohol and tobacco
-payday loans and other stuff for financially distressed people

these categories of people are pandered to specifically since their decision-making faculties are impacted. stuff used to be much more restricted, and for good reasons. "we had to do this, to keep the entertainment industry afloat" is an unacceptable reason for pushing to lift those restrictions.

so people with health conditions and substance abuse issues are now at the same mental level as children?

Deacon of Delicious
Aug 20, 2007

I bet the twist ending is Dracula's dick-babies

echinopsis posted:

impractical jokers is the best TV show and Q tweeted that he doesn't care if you torrent it
so....

but how does murr feel about it

pagancow posted:

so people with health conditions and substance abuse issues are now at the same mental level as children?

has TV broke your brain or what

pagancow
Jan 15, 2001

Video Stymie

just doing some market research on the yospos perspective

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

pagancow posted:

so people with health conditions and substance abuse issues are now at the same mental level as children?

pagancow, why don't we allow cancer patients to take Laetril?

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome
its because it's a quack medicine that doesn't work that preys on people when they are at their weakest and will try anything to cure their sickeness and people were taking advantage of that weakness to make a buck and america said "no, that's gross, lets not allow people to do that."

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

rotor posted:

its because it's a quack medicine that doesn't work that preys on people when they are at their weakest and will try anything to cure their sickeness and people were taking advantage of that weakness to make a buck and america said "no, that's gross, lets not allow people to do that."

Sounds like some commie pinko poo poo to me

theadder
Dec 30, 2011


gas

Tiny Bug Child
Sep 11, 2004

Avoid Symmetry, Allow Complexity, Introduce Terror

fits my needs posted:

maybe its some weird thing because he runs porn sites? lol

the continuing existence of my industry despite piracy rates that would make mainstream media poo poo themselves is a pretty good counterexample to pagancow's dumb poo poo

Elder Postsman
Aug 30, 2000


i used hot bot to search for "teens"

rotor posted:

its because it's a quack medicine that doesn't work that preys on people when they are at their weakest and will try anything to cure their sickeness and people were taking advantage of that weakness to make a buck and america said "no, that's gross, lets not allow people to do that."

no i don't believe for a second that america would do that

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

Elder Postsman posted:

no i don't believe for a second that america would do that

well I mean Americans back in the days when we still did good deeds

crusader_complex
Jun 4, 2012

rotor posted:

its because it's a quack medicine that doesn't work that preys on people when they are at their weakest and will try anything to cure their sickeness and people were taking advantage of that weakness to make a buck and america said "no, that's gross, lets not allow people to do that."

Cnidaria
Apr 10, 2009

It's all politics, Mike.

you should block all adds out of principle alone

all other consequences don't matter

if a show relies on adds to be on tv then it is poo poo anyway

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

Cnidaria posted:

you should block all adds out of principle alone

all other consequences don't matter

if a show relies on adds to be on tv then it is poo poo anyway

therefore all tv shows are poo poo

Jimmy Carter
Nov 3, 2005

THIS MOTHERDUCKER
FLIES IN STYLE
Can we agree how weird it was that large advertisers resisted internet ads for so long despite their reach being precisely measured as opposed to TV which was the exact opposite?

Also have the cable companies gotten into the business of selling viewership data from peoples cable boxes yet?

BANME.sh
Jan 23, 2008

What is this??
Are you some kind of hypnotist??
Grimey Drawer

Blue Train posted:

Supposedly ghostery uses the stats on what is blocked to sell ways to better advertise to the companies it blocks or some poo poo. I used it and like it to though and it seems easier than disconnect

this is called Ghostrank and it's disabled by default

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Deacon of Delicious posted:

but how does murr feel about it

yeah like his opinion matters

Deacon of Delicious
Aug 20, 2007

I bet the twist ending is Dracula's dick-babies

echinopsis posted:

yeah like his opinion matters

aww, poor little ferret-faced dude

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
he doesn't seem
to fit in like the others
sal and q do a podcast I need to check
it out "what say you"

Deacon of Delicious
Aug 20, 2007

I bet the twist ending is Dracula's dick-babies

echinopsis posted:

he doesn't seem
to fit in like the others
sal and q do a podcast I need to check
it out "what say you"

neat, i will mention the podcast to the folks i watch the show with

i think murr fits in fine. but i bet we can agree on this:

joe is a dick, and it is hilarious

PuTTY riot
Nov 16, 2002

Jimmy Carter posted:

Can we agree how weird it was that large advertisers resisted internet ads for so long despite their reach being precisely measured as opposed to TV which was the exact opposite?

Also have the cable companies gotten into the business of selling viewership data from peoples cable boxes yet?

yeah probably for the last decade or so

Fabricated
Apr 9, 2007

Living the Dream
I wouldn't care as much about always blocking ads online if they weren't the vector for pretty much all malware

qntm
Jun 17, 2009

rotor posted:

its because it's a quack medicine that doesn't work that preys on people when they are at their weakest and will try anything to cure their sickeness and people were taking advantage of that weakness to make a buck and america said "no, that's gross, lets not allow people to do that."

"let's take all the warning labels off and let the problem solve itself!!"

SO DEMANDING
Dec 27, 2003

pharmaceutical ads are just so loving awful in so many ways. they keep getting creepier and weirder in overall presentation and dialogue

"when my mild-to-severe $ailment was too much, i asked my doctor about $drug" fffffasfdasgadsg ugggghhh fffgfgfhhfgg

side effects may include a billion things worse than the original condition. also death. ASK YOUR DOCTOR TODAY

Fabricated
Apr 9, 2007

Living the Dream
pharmaceuticals is one of those things you should never look into because it's a never ending spiral of horror that will legit make you more depressed and upset the more you look at the development, marketing, and distribution of drugs

"Want to quit smoking!? Try Chantix!*"

*Chantix was originally developed as an mild anti-depressant for PTSD treatment, but unfortunately it caused a non-insignificant number of its patients to kill themselves. It was also discovered it helped some people quit smoking. So it was rebranded as a quit-smoking drug

Fabricated fucked around with this message at 15:39 on Nov 14, 2014

SO DEMANDING
Dec 27, 2003

Fabricated posted:

pharmaceuticals is one of those things you should never look into because it's a never ending spiral of horror that will legit make you more depressed and upset the more you look at the development, marketing, and distribution of drugs

"Want to quit smoking!? Try Chantix!*"

*Chantix was originally developed as an mild anti-depressant for PTSD treatment, but unfortunately it caused a non-significant number of its patients to kill themselves. It was also discovered it helped some people quit smoking. So it was rebranded as a quit-smoking drug

the big companies arent researching new antibiotics because it isnt profitable

even though increasing antibiotics resistance is, you know, kind of a thing

bring on the airborne mrsa-ebola-turbo-flu!!

Fabricated
Apr 9, 2007

Living the Dream

SO DEMANDING posted:

the big companies arent researching new antibiotics because it isnt profitable

even though increasing antibiotics resistance is, you know, kind of a thing

bring on the airborne mrsa-ebola-turbo-flu!!
yerp, we doomed

also meant to say "non-insignificant" whoops

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pagancow
Jan 15, 2001

Video Stymie

I dont know anything about prescription drugs so yall on your own.

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