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        In some cities they are, and it’s a beautiful thing. An example is Canberra, Australia.

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          I live near Seattle Washington and there are very few here. Pretty much only on Indian Reservations. But last summer I was on a road trip that took me through Salt Lake City Utah and there were SO MANY BILLBOARDS along the interstate there. I can’t believe the people put up with it.

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          Wow I did not notice that this was the case. Gotta appreciate this a bit the next time I visit.

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        I moved from somewhere with billboards all over the place to somewhere signs over 6 feet tall are illegal

        It’s breathtakingly nicer

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        Time for AR where you can replace all those puplic ads with, umm, nsfw art, for example.

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        They can be a bit too much, but thanks to a billboard I found out that one of my favorite bands (Morcheeba) are playing in my city.

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        No idea then. I use adblock on all of my devices, but sometimes things slip through. And I sometimes click on one of those SEO fake “articles” that are really just ads when I’m searching for something.

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    When I don’t see any ads, my friends and I like to celebrate with a refreshing Pepsi!

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    I see hundreds of ads every day on almost every hat, T-shirt, shoe, hand bag, bus, bus stop enclosure, train, and car I pass throughout the day.

    Hell, my neighbor just had his house painted so I literally can’t walk around the block without seeing an yard sign advertising a painting company.

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      I don’t want all advertising to disappear. If you are annoyed by businesses having branding you’ve gone too far. I’ve often seen work done and contacted the contractor through their site signage

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        I understand that advertising and branding works. Some are more annoying than others, but at the end of the day it doesn’t matter if it’s a banner ad in a website, or a vinal decal on a truck. It is still an ad, and it’s effectiveness at influencing our decisions is not none.

        The question was “when did you last see an ad?”. I think my answer is fair. All the friggin’ time.

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    You (and I) are the reason the product placement in TV and movies is becoming so profitable. Now quick, move that Coke can and throw the Lexus into MaxoSport™ mode so we can escape the Krill!

    Edit to answer your question: I watched the trailer for Invincible Season 2 last night. That was the last ad I watched.

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    The thing is, I’m not against a little ad here and there from time to time. I understand that someone needs to pay for the things we use “for free”.

    But what is going on now is just plain old exploitation. Nothing more nothing less.

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      Back when Google started, the idea was to only show discrete text ads on search. Then they started showing image ads and created AdSense which basically shows Google ads on external pages. The real killer was when Google bought doubleclick. Until then Google didn’t do ad tracking but with dclk (which has a tracking cookie) things went downhill fast. Ever wonder why Google ads domains are (or used to be) doubleclick.net? Because changing the domain would make Google lose all those yummy doubleclick tracking cookies.

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    You have definitely seen ads in Windows, you just don’t realize they’re ads. Windows recommending Edge, OneNote, or OneDrive? All ads. The “recommended apps” section? Ads.

    Unless you have gutted Windows 10 and never connected it to the internet, you’re seeing ads from Microsoft.

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    You may not be seeing traditional TV and internet ads but I promise you that you see plenty of marketing every day of your life regardless of how much ad-blocking you try.

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      Yup. Go about your day and count how many “Nike Swooshes” you see. Branding is marketing is advertising.

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        Junk e-mail, you mean? I don’t really mind them, and automatically straight up to the Trash. I have filters to do this.

        I rarely receive a physical mail on my mailbox, except my electricity and water bills every month.

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    I think the only ads I see at home are Steam and my trash email.

    One of my friend has YouTube in his TV that pumps ads, another friend watches the old-fashioned TV that also pumps ads, shopping malls have audio and visual ads, bus and train stations have ads…so I guess the last time I saw an ad was 7 hours ago or so.

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      I use nextdns with any VPN. So when I turnoff VPN, nextdns still stays active and blocks ads. Try it, hope it works.

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    Honestly, that’s a good question. I use a DNS level ad block and that takes care of the vast majority of them. I also use a lot of either open source software which does not contain ads or front ends to services that do contain ads that strip the ads out like newpipe.

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      I recently wanted to watch a TV show that I could only find on Discovery Plus.

      Signed up, started playing and an advert starts playing!?!? When did it become normal to serve ads for a service you’re already paying for.

      Anyway I cancelled and pirated the show

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    Every day at the subway station. Huge TV is playing ads.

    I look up my windows, and see ads on buildings, also again huge TVs playing ads.

    In my elevator there is an announcement for the building Christmas party, that’s an ad, it’s relevant to my immediate interests but it’s still an advertisement.

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    Depends on what you mean by “seeing an ad.” An intrusive video ad on YouTube or another video site, or a bunch of annoying pop-ups? Nope, haven’t seen one in years, either. Non-intrusive banner ads on sites I’ve specifically whitelisted in order to help them financially because I like their content and services? Yeah, seen those, but I don’t mind them, and I never whitelist sites where the ads are intrusive.